Yeah they forced me to provide a number during login. I don’t have any numbers associated with my account to protect against sim swapping, and I shouldn’t need

Yeah they forced me to provide a number during login. I don’t have any numbers associated with my account to protect against sim swapping, and I shouldn’t need a number because I have multiple methods of MFA plus recovery email. But if Google wants your phone number, Google gets your phone number. The number I provided doesn’t appear anywhere in my account but I bet it’s stored somewhere behind the scenes, so they can compare it against previous logins. I do wonder, if I got a new phone number, would it let me in or lock me out?