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by benp84 3008 days ago
On point 2: people forget which service they signed in with, accidentally make multiple accounts and think their data is gone, and sometimes APIs are down (mostly LinkedIn) or throw errors, all of which lead to customer service headaches without an email/password reset backup.

On points 3 & 4: I've seen more fake Facebook and LinkedIn accounts than I can count. Some users have dozens. I haven't looked into how they create them so easily, but they do. While it's certainly more hassle to get one than a fake email, there's still a ton of them.