Edit: I just got back in! I had to give a real phone # for the SMS step. It pretended to accept a Google Voice # but would never send a code and I just got stuc

Edit: I just got back in! I had to give a real phone # for the SMS step. It pretended to accept a Google Voice # but would never send a code and I just got stuck in the loop I describe below. I've now closed the account. Oh, the irony... Yup, I've got an old gmail account that Google won't let me into. First I get: "This device isn’t recognized. For your security, Google wants to make sure it’s really you." With options for "Confirm your recovery email" and "Get a verification code at <elided recovery email>." Regardless of which I choose, it then asks me for a phone # for an SMS code. So I give it one, just to get: "Unavailable because of too many failed attempts. Try again in a few hours." Except, "a few hours" is a lie. I last tried this weeks ago. I get a "Try another way" option which prompts me "Enter the last password you remember using with this Google Account." at which point I'm at a dead end because this account only ever had one password. The best part is that shortly after going through this exercise I get an email to the recovery address: "Sign-in attempt was blocked. Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened." With a "Check Activity" button that takes me right back to the Google sign page... Buttle? Tuttle? The irony in all of this is that I'd forgotten about the account until Google sent an "new terms of service" email to the recovery email address and decided I wanted to close the account. But I can't login to do so. Anyway, I switched my primary email away to Fastmail years ago and I'm still happy with that decision.