If you can unlink your address from a locked out account and then link it to a new account and add new 2FA factors to new account, and basically set it up again to be a replacement nearly identical to the original... how is that any different / more secure than just using a "reset account" feature that resets the original account (removes 2FA)?

We're still back to the recurring original problem with account security where the security of your account comes down to the security of your linked e-mail account.

Not only programmed accounts are created but also troll accounts that propagate disinformation and spread fake news with the intent to cause havoc on every people. In short, once they start with a malicious comment some people will engage with the said comment which leads to more rage comments and disagreements towards each other. That is what they do, they trigger people to engage in their comments so that they can be spread more and produce more fake news. These troll accounts usually are prominent during elections, like in the Philippines some speculates that some of the candidates have made troll farms just to spread fake news all over social media in which some people engage on.

Decentralized account management may also run into a problem analogous to the double spend problem. Someone with key A signs a message they are now using key B, and an attacker gets a hold of that key and signs a message they are using key C. An observer has no way of knowing whether the message about B or C happened first.

Social Media Conversations in Support of Herd Immunity are Driven by Bots. (n.d.). Federation Of American Scientists. Retrieved March 31, 2022, from https://fas.org/blogs/fas/2020/10/social-media-conversations-in-support-of-herd-immunity-are-driven-by-bots/

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘this really is now a disinformation account. I retweeted posts earlier in the pandemic as part of a balanced spread of opinion. But this will be the last one...’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 29 March 2022, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1478485258395951108

Bad Vaccine Takes. (2022, January 26). This account is fake https://t.co/r5SXmzuPQj [Tweet]. @BadVaccineTakes. https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1486445924071129097

I can relate...

Nathan Young. (2021, February 3). Can we gather all covid tweets from large UK accounts, anonymise them put them on a website, let the public score them true to false then rank the accounts? [Tweet]. @NathanpmYoung. https://twitter.com/NathanpmYoung/status/1356928462565564416

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Elmas, T., Overdorf, R., Akgül, Ö. F., & Aberer, K. (2020). Misleading Repurposing on Twitter. ArXiv:2010.10600 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10600

20200611_China_Report.pdf | Con la tecnología de Box. (n.d.). Retrieved June 18, 2020, from https://stanford.app.box.com/v/sio-twitter-prc-june-2020

A few paragraphs later this appears: "She set her phone alarm for midnight so that as Thursday turned to Friday, she could check whether Dave’s first paycheck had hit their account. She could hear the clatter of raccoons foraging in a nearby dumpster and the hum of cars rolling through the drive-through. At 12:01 a.m. she looked to see whether Dave’s paycheck had shown up in his account." First they don't have an account for the stimulus money to go to, then they're getting up at midnight to see if the paycheck had hit their account. In addition, it takes about a week to set up direct deposit with most companies.

It's interesting to see how many times, and in how many ways, the narrator uses the word "Account" in this book. We tend to use it as synonymous with "story," but here it really does some like an account-book is at the back of the narrator's mind a lot of the time.