Venting about all the security features blocking my own local apps

I am right here with you, from a completely different angle. Trying to login to an account to approve a device management update.  a basic change that took me 20 seconds to make. 

took me an hour to login. My sign-in kept getting blocked because Entra would either apply a Conditional Access policy the user is excluded from, OR  because it decided my MFA wasn't MFA, or because I'm signing in too much, or because it decided to try forcing me to register new MFA info despite Registration being off. Entra has a lot of optional functionality that can be turned on/off, but defaults to 'Microsoft managed'. I have to turn it all to OFF because Microsoft Managed is just asking for trouble. Turns out, you're STILL forced to take Microsoft's 'recommendations' even when they're off. 

Here's a screenshot of it refusing to validate the email it demanded I validate (and asking me to press a button that doesn't exist). 63 minutes after making the change, Entra finally stopped making up reasons to block the sign-in and let me in. 

Here's a screenshot of all my MFA methods just randomly disappearing because  apparently they're not important. 

pretty infuriating to be dealing with such clear dysfunction over some really basic stuff, and then read Satya Nadella babbling about AI becuz he wants his elite bonus. Ironic too, when  he wrote an entire book about 'rediscovering microsoft's soul and making a better future for everyone'... and now he's just another uninspired, overpaid CEO pushing cosmetic changes and shallow AI platitudes