100% this. Had a class using Microsoft’s MakeCode last year, which pushes Github integration for sharing code - which seemed like a really cool concept for a group project they were working on. So I have the class follow the link from Microsoft MakeCode - to Microsoft Github. But Github doesn’t use the accounts that they were using for MakeCode, so it prompted them to create new accounts. Guess which class of kids immediately had 90% of their Github accounts inexplicably locked on creation? Spent a chunk of time wrestling with that issue.

I think we wound up merging their stuff by hand. Probably carried on floppy disks. Like savages.

Microsoft seems obsessed with credentials now. I hate using the Xbox I own because of this and having to log in every. single. time. All the verifications and telemetry turned me into a Mac user after 30+ years of MS-DOS and Windows. Of course those thing matter in an office context but I don't want to have to show my ID constantly on my home computer/console.

My org uses Azure auth for some internal apps, that login prompt will always prompt me at the worst possible time, whenever I need to do something fast.

I then need to close the app, go to my PW manager, copy the PW, and go back to where I originally was