Please. No.

Doing this two hundred times a year will not make me check my catch all emails for notices. I get so many notices from the ‘shield plugin’ that I think two of my server setups are getting emailed throttled, and I no longer look at a single email sent by any wp system.
This would just add to the pile of email that is never read, clogging up the systems like contact form 7 spam mails.

I love it when WP does minor updates and I get 200 emails saying yay your site just updated – I don’t open them, it just stresses me out wondering if the update broke anything and if I am missing important email in the deluge of wasted mailbox space these things take up.

A useful thing would be some kind of emclient/thunderbid/outlook script that would auto-check and notice that WP admin only got 195 emails for site updates and that 200 were expected, so likely this cool update broke the 5 sites that did NOT email…

The four times I tried to find an email about a site crash / whitescreen warning, only one email was received – and this is a self hosted catch all addy without spam filtering from google.. so the mails were not sent for some reason.

What might be a reasonable thing to add – a notice for any author that logs in, showing,
“hey, btw, the main notify / reset email is set as “youroldname@aol.com” –

Would you like to change that? (if super admin)
– like to add another email addy to get important site notices? (if admin abilities)

So notices can be sent to an email box you check more often if something is needed.

(I actually saw an old aol email as admin / contact form 7 notify on a client site last month)

I can see the importance of this, and feel sorry for people who had WP setup for them by someone and don’t know about this setting…

but If I have to click to verify an email for WP it will waste so much time, I’d rather find a plugin to remove this ‘core feature’ and install it 200 times than click an email notice that will likely add to the spam points on my servers.

Like above Peter Shaw said “How about for every feature added to core we move something to a plugin?” – I’ve been saying this for years. Most new wp stuff could, should be a plugin, not a core thing that forces us to add plugins to remove.