How does it get synced to my new device? Will Google charge me money because I'm using their cloud sync stuff? Are they going to charge me money like they do with "syncing pictures" (your phone starts telling you to do that, so you enable it and after a while it says you're out of space and need to pay $10 a month or 'you might lose your emails')?

> … users of one of … Google …? If that's the case, you don't need to as the key is automagically saved by your OS' platform and synced with your new device.

This absolutely does not encourage confidence in me. We all know how easy it can be to get locked out of a Google account and have no way of getting back in unless you have enough clout to make a huge noise online so a human there pays attention instead of you being stuck in the 'ol support-bot-run-around loop. It doesn't happen often when you consider how many users there actually are out there, but the potential inconvenience is high enough that “fairly rare in the grand scheme of things” is still enough to be reason enough to be wary.

The point is people like this usually are arguing as they hate adopting new tech. And they hate FAANG. No way to convince them.