Unfortunately you'll be guided to storing those in your Google account too, so your everyday user will still get locked out, in some ways it's worse because a lot of sites will only accept a "recovery key", email confirmation is no longer enough (not that it matters if your GMail is also locked out)
Good god what happened to editors?
The average person isn't qualified to administer a server and would rather pay $1/month or whatever for a hosted solution.
A whitelist, auth/contact is ideal for messaging without spam and is more workable with a large federated group that can adopt an evolving open source protocol.
Too many unknowns and moving parts.
Have you ever worked with the general public and computers?
The average person was wondering why their wireless router needed cables. They did not update their computers for the entire time they owned them. Somebody else ignores big red text saying this will delete everything and hits next anyway, then wonders where their photo collection has gone.
I cannot believe the average person would be capable of registering a domain and configuring their DNS to point at this simple mail server they’re running.
If somebody else is taking care of all of these parts, I am not sure they’re really hosting it themselves.
Maybe we need a new protocol and we can replace all of this? How do we get everybody on board?
Why not register your own domain and use an email on that domain?
Nowadays, registering a domain is almost free, and you can fully customize your email addresses.
Who do you use as a mail host with your custom domain? A third party?
granted, it gives me an out if my provider revokes my access (in this case, google) but the custom domain requires some headache to manage well - I wish I had just used a google account...