Never trust Google on anything mission-critical, always have an emergency plan in mind and backup everything from their services. Getting locked out is as easy as changing the country and finding out the "change country" menus on your google pixel phone inside the play store are simply non-functional decoys, pressing confirm buttons will just be silently doing nothing without any error and if you file a support ticket there will be no reply.
Never trust Google on anything mission-critical, always have an emergency plan in mind and backup everything from their services. Getting locked out is as easy as changing the country and finding out the "change country" menus on your google pixel phone inside the play store are simply non-functional decoys, pressing confirm buttons will just be silently doing nothing without any error and if you file a support ticket there will be no reply.