Interesting. In my country, the minimum fare is a fare floor for discounted fares too (except for disability and military servicemen, which get to travel for free by train by law). For example, currently, the shortest train journey in Turkey is ₺20, even if you have discounts.
> Google is convinced I'm trying to break into my own accounts
Yep, the more you attempt the harder it will get, please wait for the 72 hour account hold and if that fails it's best to wait a full week without any sign in attempt or recovery attempts.
Are you more interested in fixing a process or fixing the problem?
Sending in-product feedback certainly could work because it's more likely to be seen by product management as it continues to roll in.
Support-driven product change requests are well intentioned but generally break down as a process internally. The working knowledge base and incentives are not properly aligned.
> Sending in-product feedback certainly could work
If it could work, we would have seen that happening. We have not, so we must assume it can't. Thus, asking to "send feedback in-product" is just a way to waste everyone's time. You avoid the negative stigma that is associated with knowing a problem exists and ignoring it, without having to undertake any concrete action. Corporate spin at it's finest.
there is even a similar DIY, only using microwave generated flash, on producing a [very small] artificial diamond from graphite by what basically is CVD method https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Make-a-Synthetic-Diamon... which most probably would work for any source of carbon (the people who don't like the low tech look of it may google for respected scientific labs doing similar :)
