In a sense, yes. If you’re revealing an account’s existence on one page, your system isn’t made more secure if you hide its existence on another page. If you th

In a sense, yes. If you’re revealing an account’s existence on one page, your system isn’t made more secure if you hide its existence on another page. If you think it does, you’re fooling yourself. Better to use other tools (like rate limiting) to improve security. And yes, you’re missing the second part of the article where the author mentions the registration flow you describe and then points out that it’s not a great user experience.