I don't see how you could do that without opening up another risk. Suppose your recovery email account is compromised. You don't want it as a recovery email any

I don't see how you could do that without opening up another risk. Suppose your recovery email account is compromised. You don't want it as a recovery email anymore because then the attacker can use it as a foothold to get into this account. If you can roll back removal, then you can't protect against that. The only way I can see around that is if there are conditions on rolling back. But then if you're going to require authorization to roll back, you need to authenticate that request, and the whole reason you're trying to do this is because you are trying to reestablish the ability to authorize.