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"My theory is that you could eliminate the need for creating accounts since most people only usually use one device."

I think that's a very risky assumption, and only bound to be less-true as time goes on.

And is a nightmare if your device is stolen.

agreed, tablet + phone is quite common for example

but tablet + phone have generally the same iCloud/google account and event if the device is stoled you can recover the account !