> and most of that payment going towards my saving
For the first several years at least, most of the mortgage payment goes to interest and taxes, not principal, and is "wasted" in much the same way rent is.
That seems to redirect me to the same page linked earlier in this thread (https://myaccount.google.com/security). Taking a look in my admin console, it looks like "Allow users to turn on 2-step verification" is unchecked, so presumably 2-step verification is not enabled for this account. That's exactly what I want, but it seems Google is failing to abide when they think I'm a "hacker". Other people have had the same frustrations[0][1] but there is apparently no way to stop Google requiring additional verification at their whim. Ultimately that means Google controls when I can and can't login to my account, so it ceases to be a usable product for me.
I don't know how they determine what options to offer, but using my phone was the only one given, despite entering a correct password. The only other option, which I either found from the "Learn more" link or after exhausting the "login with your phone" attempts, was to create a support ticket for my G-suite account which, in this case, would have been slower than returning to home a few hours later where I had left my phone.
> Now, you have one more option—and it’s already in your pocket. Starting today in beta, your phone can be your security key—it’s built into devices running Android 7.0+.
You know, it's nice they phrase this as an "option", but in my experience Google has the habit of forcing me to have my phone on me when I login from a new location / new device, something I never asked for and apparently cannot disable.[0] This has locked me out of my Google account more than once which also locks me out of anything that sends 2FA to my Gmail or Gvoice. I guess I'm thankful that I've learned this in non-emergency scenarios, as I'm now prepping to degoogleify myself, but it's a user-hostile in my opinion. Security always has convenience trade-offs, but let the user decide where they want to draw that line.
I think it's less about blame and more about objective recognition that the relationship and/or person was not as perfect as we'd like to think when we're going through heartbreak. There's a quote from Bojack Horseman, "When you look at someone through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags." I think this suggestion is more about being honest about the negatives that one looked past, even if one was content with the tradeoff.
I think the hate comes from the frequent changes to the way the program works. Customers feel like it's a bait and switch, even if it's because their model hasn't been sustainable.
The movie "Live Free or Die Hard" explores this idea in the context of terrorism - the plot revolves around a "fire sale" in which transportation, transcommunication, and power/utilities are effectively shut down. It is a Die Hard film though so it's not quite based in reality.
For the first several years at least, most of the mortgage payment goes to interest and taxes, not principal, and is "wasted" in much the same way rent is.