Google's security priorities are... interesting. When an actual hacker compromises your account from a sketchy IP in a country you've never visited? Here's a tiny decorative fence that a toddler could step over. But the moment YOU try to log in from your new laptop while sitting in your own house? Time to deploy Fort Knox with every lock, chain, padlock, and authentication method known to humanity. The irony is legendary: Google will let someone drain your entire email history with a flimsy password reset, but when you legitimately buy a new device, suddenly you need to verify your identity through 2FA, backup codes, a blood sample, your firstborn child, and that one security question you set up in 2009 about your childhood pet whose name you definitely don't remember anymore. It's the classic case of security theater where the legitimate user gets punished while actual threats slip through. Maybe Google's ML models just really hate new device purchases.