My father was a statistician and programmer for most of his career. He's switched to a new gmail account three times, at least, when he couldn't remember a password.

So, no, nobody has printouts of backup codes except the people who are already aware of Google's reliability problem.

My grandma just creates a new google account whenever she gets locked out and it doesn't matter because she doesn't use email for anything important.

I'm starting to wonder if she's the smarter one.

This is great, until you're locked out of a service that you actually need, and the only password-reset way is to send a reset link to the e-mail account she never uses anymore.