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Not at all, Google, Meta, and MS spend a lot of resources resetting passwords across literally tens of millions of accounts. It ads up at scale, and it's not even insignificant at the enterprise level.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-true-and-surprising-cost-of-forgotten-passwords/