Your two options are:
1. Tweet at Google to get human support (sometimes works, sometimes doesn't)
2. Talk to a Google employeee, because they have access to an internal support ticketing system that you don't
When everyone has 2FA, 2FA backup keys become kind of impractical in the same way it becomes impractical to remember all your passwords.
> When everyone has 2FA, 2FA backup keys become kind of impractical in the same way it becomes impractical to remember all your passwords.
This statement makes absolutely no sense. If you can't remember your passwords (and even if you can) you should use a password manager. The same can also hold your recovery keys. I also have a printed copy of the recovery codes in a file as well.
In theory (and in practice for those who care) recording recovery data is simple and quick but for the same reasons passwords are failing us, seem to rarely be recorded.