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Impossible. Because iPhones randomly force you to enter your iCloud password, often at the worst possible time. Such a user would have already been prevented from signing in to their own iMessage on a random Tuesday afternoon.

One of the most frustrating issues with Apple's UX.

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I've never experienced that. The only time I've entered my password was when I set up the iPhone and when the phone got into a weird state after a software update.

It seems to vary with how often you purchase things from the App Store and iTunes Store and how "high value" your account seems to some sort of iOS metrics. Which is why it also often seems like "phone is in a weird state after a software update" as that is probably also when some of these metrics reset/get rechecked.

It depends. It sounds like you're all in on the ecosystem. I only have the apple account because I have an iphone. I didn't get one of those double check reauthentications since many years ago, up until last month when I got apple tv. I know because I had to reset my password and it was older than my use of a password manager.

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