Two months in Google Oauth Verification Hell

TLDR - Google Oauth platform approval is broken. You are stuck in an approval loop of upload a video or send an emails or give us credentials only to get - “You have not requested all the scopes” and “Request minimum scopes” loop. No rejection emails arrive. You have to manunlly go and check the verification centre to see if the app was rejected. Ten-plus rejections. No emails for any of them. A 1,000-character justification limit that Gemini itself can’t meet. A reviewer who ignored the test credentials we were explicitly asked to provide that took days to code and accomodate. A Console UI whose contents apparently don’t match what reviewers see on their end.If you read my earlier post about being locked out of Gmail because Google conflated my Authenticator app with my phone, here’s another chapter in the Google saga of an agency ownerAs an agency, we deal with many Google properties of our clients namely Google Analytics (GA4) , Google Tag Manager (GTM) , Google Search Console…