I think I fairer impression of history would be that most people agreed it was a good idea - if only so that users could handle their own pw resets - and even some work was done towards it with https://github.com/spring/uberserver/bl ... col.py#L40.Multiple calls to the lobby devs to implement email verification into the login system has repeatedly been struck down.
But it requires alot of coordination (-> all lobbies) and afaik nobody has ever offered to do the work.
In case of this thread though, it seems unlikely that someone setting up multiple VPNs would be stopped by having to verify email.