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Sure, but as long as the fallback for account recovery is sending a reset email or sms (both of which are similar or worse than yoloing textfiles on dropboxes), that's a very tough argument to make in good faith.


I agree that account recovery isn't the best. But just because that sucks doesn't mean there's zero value in improving credentials.




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