Convinced myself of what?

You already explained you don’t like it. But your anecdote and my anecdote cancel out the anecdotes.

BotW was my favorite gaming experience of all time. Hours and hours of joy for me.

“I don’t really like X, but as long as they don’t then do Y I guess it’s okay”

They always do Y

It’s not a weird caste system. It’s just that people have always primarily just used SMS in the US, and if the people texting all happen to have iPhones, then there are some extra features tacked on (from the perception of the end user). Having been in many many large group chats for various activities and events, where it’s never 100% apple and just SMS, absolutely nobody cares at all. It’s just that maybe some teens and tweens use the colors to judge and exclude, which they famously find justifications for doing in every generation, and probably even that is overblown by the media.

There simply was never an incentive to kind of force everybody to move over to e.g. WhatsApp, and people don’t bother to do something like that en masse without a need to.

I’m not only going by the trailer though. I’m also going by track record of the company, and particularly how they treat their flagship titles. With that taken into account, I do feel pretty confident.

I will preorder a Zelda game or something where I’m pretty confident of the quality and I don’t want to worry about slow download speeds on the day of release. I assume my case isn’t what you’re talking about, but if it is foolish in some way that hadn’t occurred to me, please let me know lol

In fact, millennials have begun turning 40 already. Not everybody agrees on generation cutoffs, but I don’t think there’s anyone who considers someone born in 1984 to still be Gen X.

Well in this case the instructions specifically say to avoid those kinds of questions.

Can you explain what you mean when you say email OTP is somewhat pointless?