- email address is just the one associated with the Google account, it sucks if you started the application on your personal google account, but you can still change it
- you need a payment profile to pay the account fee + verify your identity, the last part is probably very important for anti-spam
- I can understand that legal name + country can be considered doxxing, but I think it's highly relevant information for users
Of course these requirements could be relaxed for low-risk applications (i.e. no INTERNET permission), but I think it's understandable there is so few of them nowadays that it is not a priority.
- you need a payment profile to pay the account fee + verify your identity, the last part is probably very important for anti-spam
- I can understand that legal name + country can be considered doxxing, but I think it's highly relevant information for users
Of course these requirements could be relaxed for low-risk applications (i.e. no INTERNET permission), but I think it's understandable there is so few of them nowadays that it is not a priority.