I was unaware of this. I have never run into that issue, but I’ve never used the bootloader to reset a phone that is associated with my google account.

I would assume not having a google account associated with the phone would disable FRP making it a non-issue, but I’m clearly not an expert as I didn’t know this existed

That is not the case in my experience. At the very least, you can wipe it from recovery without unlocking it.

I suppose its possible it varies between manufacturers, but I would be surprised because they don’t want the hardware to be useless if you forget the pin immediately after you set it.

You can always wipe it without the duress pin

I use a VPN and have never had issues connecting to lemmy.world despite regularly having issues with YouTube and Reddit. I wonder if its specific VPN networks or blacklisted IPs that lemmy.world doesn’t like.