the combination of single account for everything and arbitrary account locking is really scary, given how much of their lives people entrust to these services.

the combination of single account for everything and arbitrary account locking is really scary, given how much of their lives people entrust to these services. anecdotally i have steered strictly clear of google cloud for my personal projects (even though i have some cases where firebase would have worked nicely) because i cannot risk some screw up locking me out of gmail.