Everything done to make the Internet 'safer' and/or more clear to idiots has made it worse for anyone competent. The ability to control cookies was always there and worked completely fine since the 90s.

Forced two factor authentication is another one. I literally never had any issues before two-factor because I just used different unique passwords and didn't share them with anyone. I have never been 'hacked' even once for 20+ years online. But now, I have issues when travelling and using a local sim with a different number when email authentication isn't permitted. And all to protect idiots who use 'hunter2' for their password across all systems and then act like some elite hacker cracked their code.

I've since just set up a voip number purely for two factor phone number based authentication, but it's annoying I was forced to do that instead of being given the option through and opt-in system.