Does anyone else notice old accounts that were working fine in the past randomly get demanded to enter your phone number for verification. "We detected unusual

Does anyone else notice old accounts that were working fine in the past randomly get demanded to enter your phone number for verification. "We detected unusual activity" is such an obvious lie. When setting up thunderbird, I've had multiple Google accounts lie about suspicious activity and demand I go through about 10 captcha checks and enter my old password and answer my security questions and verify my phone number. After passing all of that without error, they STILL won't let me log in with a blanket statement about security. Why oh why would they ask users to jump through extreme hoops just looking for any possible questionable failure to point to as an excuse, but still reject you after passing everything? If you're not going to let people use their account, farming free AI detection and personal information out of them doesn't seem like a legitimate tactic one should be doing. They discriminate against some phone numbers too. They have to be in whatever they think the correct country is, they often can't be VOIP or VOIP related, and there's unknown blacklists of some famous numbers sometimes. What happens when we run out of phone numbers? I won't be surprised when accounts start getting banned for "sharing" or "ban evading" phone numbers (aka getting a new phone number for any reason) because it screws up their ad tracking of you... Or they'll force you to first log into an account in order to delete it even though it belongs to somebody else. Or your new phone number you bought specifically for authenticating a separate account is banned (just like voip number) because a previous user was banned using it.