Needing account authorization is new and likely not something that can be fixed. You can still use cookies/netrc, but your account might eventually be limited.
Race has to be a biological factor. Some of my family were on the transplant list for a long time, due to PKD. Throughout those many years there was a constant call for more Black donors.
There are faster implementations of tortoise that allow fine-tuning. You can get close to ElevenLabs quality if you have a perfect dataset. https://git.ecker.tech/mrq/ai-voice-cloning
I'm still bitter about their half-baked cookie law that instantly made web browsing a much worse experience, regardless of how well-intentioned it may have been.
Lots of people on dialysis are there through no fault of their own. My mother and other members of my family were born with a kidney disease, and died while doing everything correctly.