Interesting take! Escalating the information being demanded to recover the account beyond that used to sign up is not something I can really get on board with.
Edit: nevermind, I'm sure I'm wrong about this, and it's offtopic anyway. Apologies!
Reset codes, as in some entities will provide you with a page/image/etc. with ~10 codes on it when you enable 2FA, which can each be used once in place of the code generated by the 2FA token, letting you get into the account to, e.g. set up a new 2FA token/method.