Email is like one of the most common used identity, if not "the" most common used one, for web/cloud services. It's used as identity for roughly half of services in the wild, yet they don't put email/mail in their names, or emphasize that they are email alternatives.
You said emails are not the _core_ mechanism within the app. Maybe besides using them as identities, you also use emails for other, "non-core" way? Can you clarify on that? Maybe it's only me but it really confuses me that you emphasize email in such a way but only use them as identities.