Great work my friend. Yeah, i have been reading about this today and i totally support the idea. So many idle accounts after introductory posts have been made. It is costing the platform a lot and doing the manual verification is to help reduce it to the minimum and unfortunately and you have said, genuine users would be affected too. My cousin is one and he has been on it since two weeks now. He even tried using steeminvite, just heard it is temporarily down and being worked upon too and some are switching to v2 already. He lost his password to a crashed phone and didn't back his password up. He has resolved to opening a new one and that is now the reason he is having this challenge.