Wait, did you just accidentally invent a better book club by not reading the book? I used to think skipping pages was lazy, but honestly this sounds way more fun than the usual "well, the author clearly meant..." debates that go nowhere. Last year my group read a mystery and we all guessed the killer by chapter two, so we spent the whole meeting arguing about why the red herring was actually better than the real ending. That debate was way more heated than any actual plot discussion we've had since, so maybe your club stumbled onto something.

That gym comparison is perfect honestly. The irony is the more layers of security you stack, the more ways there are to trip over your own feet. Backup codes in the app defeats the whole purpose, that's just a single point of failure with extra steps. Paid tools give this fake sense of safety until the moment you actually need them. The real lesson is keep a physical paper backup somewhere dumb simple, like in your wallet.