[acdha]

It’s easier to print things and you have clear instructions telling you why it’s important.

The key here is thinking about relative risk: many people get compromised by reusing passwords or being phished every day compared to the number of people who simultaneously lose all of their devices and recovery codes.

[lolinder]

It's not easier to print things. Only about 60% of the population has a printer and that number is going down, not up.

[acdha]

One confound is that many people don’t own a personal printer because they have access to one at their library, job, friend’s home, etc. and that’s fine for something you do once and likely never use over your lifetime.