[el_nino]

> This is not "apologetic BS"

You started by claiming it's "100% false" and ended up saying changing your mind and agreeing it's true but for a good cause.

I agree it's not BS but apologetic it definitely is. You are justifying a decrease in security for the benefit of usability. This in itself would be a worthwhile goal if it wasn't for the facts that it goes against reasonably expected behavior and as a user I am not made clearly aware of this or given the option to control it.

Everyone is used to being asked for password reconfirmation before changing the password so it figures that they have the same expectation for the 2FA. I know I did.

> There is NO human backup - all emails, google photos, google drive etc GONE.

That's also Google's decision. You can't use one bad decision to justify another. It's likely this 2FA decision wasn't taken to help you get easier access to your account but to allow them to have 0 support knowing 2FA issues are easy to happen especially to people who won't properly save recovery keys (most people).