And how are they supposed to do it if users did not add proper 2FA (and backup those recovery keys)?

Even banks are struggling to authenticate folks. For a longtime in EU people with 3rd world passports cannot create accounts easily.

Google cannot connect identity of a person to email address easily. Or they need to create CS - that will authenticate passports? And hundreds of countries, stolen IDs?

Nay.

> The thing is that at scale your edge cases are still millions of people

> never seem to be capable of handling the other parts that come with it

Same thing with govts. If you go to driver license. passport or any govt office then there will one person with some strange issue.