but is it really so bad when the owner of the email address can reset passwords at will anyways?
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Yes, because it forces me to open another tab and wait a minute until the email arrives and I can login.
Not to mention that it makes me see all the emails I hadn't seen I had received since the last time I had opened Gmail 5 days ago.
hm, desculpa but you failed to address the point. lose your key -> lose your account. Whereas with typical e-mail based accounts you forget your pw -> reset your pw