Comment by firefax

Google has issues with authentication.

I lost my childhood account because it decided the recovery codes, written on paper + stored in a safe location (matching) were all marked as invalid.

I'd have seen logs of them being used if someone had done something movie plot level like break into my personal safe.

I ended up just not going back -- I'd been experimenting with Protonmail, and libreoffice is enough for my word processing needs.