That's nice and all, but the benefit to "social login buttons" (or any oauth like system) is that it reduces the number of supposedly unique passwords your user

That's nice and all, but the benefit to "social login buttons" (or any oauth like system) is that it reduces the number of supposedly unique passwords your users have to remember. So they can use good passwords. The username/password pattern is bad, and social login buttons, however much you think they mar your precious login page with confusing options, goes a long way to improving matters. On the other hand, when their control freak CEO flipped out about 2 extra buttons, I wonder what they did with accounts that were already using the system. I guess send them a random password next time.