A somewhat counterpoint to the first example in the article: I created a Reddit ...

A somewhat counterpoint to the first example in the article:

I created a Reddit account (11 years ago) without an email address and forgot the password.

Now there is no way to reset the password and recover the account.

I never bothered to create a new account so I just stopped using Reddit in most cases.

It's not requiring an email that's bad. It's making it look like it's required but not saying that it's not.