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Well, maybe because the 3rd party service is not reliable or you want to send an additional mail.

But okay, fair point - password-reset is maybe not the greatest example. But it doesn't invalidate the general point (I gave a couple of other examples).

> Otherwise... what on earth am I doing with users in the first place?

Maybe just making sure that the user is known and has paid for plan X (if the 3rd party service offers that).



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