Google recovery is a disaster. I lost an account that had a recovery email. I got locked out of the account, and it said the recovery email wasn't enough! WTF!?

Google recovery is a disaster. I lost an account that had a recovery email. I got locked out of the account, and it said the recovery email wasn't enough! WTF!? That's exactly what it is for. So, you can lose your google account, even with recovery set up.