nope, you can skip for the first account and then validate after the fact

Get a Prusa. I too made the error buing chinese crap (Ender 3 v2 in my case). I didn’t have the cloud problem but i had to tinker soo much till it actually worked.

You pay more for a Prusa, but then you actually have tested and open hard- and software that works and can’t be taken away from you.

create 2 proton mail account und use each other as a backup e-mail