It is good. Particularly for those who like to use google to manage their login data. Personally I dont, thats not a feature I would use, but I can see how it would be brilliant for everyone else 
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If one were to use Google SSO, that’s one less password to remember! 
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That is true, but it also means that your client area account is tied to your Google account. So if you lost access to your Google account for whatever reason, you wouldn’t be able to manage your site either. I understand why people enjoy the convenience of it, but it’s personally something I avoid using if possible.
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Thats my thought proccess. It was dificult enough when I lost access to one of my emails to change everything over.
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I’m also not a big fan of social logins myself. I avoid them when I can. Google doesn’t need to know what services I use, and if Google doesn’t like you anymore for some reason, they can already do enough damage by just cutting you off from their own services without also cutting you off from any service they manage authentication for.
But it appears that I’m in a minority here, because the Google login is extremely popular.
And you can’t argue with how ridiculously easy it makes the signup: just click the button and you’re done. No need to enter any details, no need to check your email and click a link.
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I do agree with you there on that. When it comes down to choosing how I want to login, I always aim to use an email and password instead of an SSO. I’ve had bad situations relying on an SSO to log me in.
My Outlook account has a Google account to go with it. Around 2 years ago, I was upgrading my phone and passing the old one to someone else, so I reset the old one after I setup the new one. I forgot to transfer the 2FA credentials, which were now lost. I never generated any backup codes. (Yeah, I know it was a stupid thing of me. I never thought I needed them)
I tried getting it back by going through Google’s process of verification, after 90 days I got a message saying they couldn’t verify me. Everything that relied on Google SSO, and all of my data, was now stuck behind a barrier I couldn’t break through.
I had to contact services that used my Google SSO, and ask them to switch my login method to email-based. Some were able to do so with verification, some refused.
After I got at least my essential services recovered, I never bothered to try and recover my account for a full year. I then bothered to try again with recovering my Google account, in hopes of a different outcome.
I was lucky that the second try was successful. But that goes to show that if you use an SSO, don’t lose it or you may be locked out of everything that uses it in the future.
I was lucky to be an Outlook user, because that meant that I still had my inbox. If I was a dedicated Gmail user, that account would still be locked out to this day, and everything would be locked with it.
EDIT: When I was setting up the new phone, I used a different, dedicated Gmail account. Had I used my Outlook account, things would be different.
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