Earlier quoted context omitted.
Enforcing MFA or registering with phone numbers wasn't required on email accounts back in the day.
Irrelevant. Gengar obviously registered a phone number at some point. It's one thing to ask for help, but another for him to be outraged over something that was and in his control.
I made this account 14 years ago when I was a teenager. I didn't even know my YouTube was tied to this Hotmail Google Account until the past week or that it even existed.