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by StavrosK 2802 days ago
This is wrong. Your email provider is already a SPOF for your security, since anyone who owns your email de facto owns all your accounts. All you're doing is removing another link from the security chain, i.e. the service authentication method.

Essentially, you're replacing two (or a thousand) things someone can break into with one thing someone can break into. That's much easier to secure.