See.. the sad thing for doomsayers like you is that if even 1% of users were affected then there would be mass exodus from Gmail. It does not.

Yes, you don't use Gmail so it does not matter. You may be don't know. And often even average Joe some how has a oldphone or iPad that has oldgmail account there or logged into wife's phone or phone based SMS whatever.

it is ok to hate passkeys or google or love only self-hosted but let others do what they want.

I have been user of solokeys (since the first one) - only opensource hardware keys. works for me...

But if you go to the local highstreet then there are tons of people doing this screenrepair etc just to recover the account. Average Joe doesnot mind paying for that. Even will give the repair guy full password to transfer all data from old to new phone.