I would like to add my voice to this issue.

I never had anything but problems with my Microsoft and Azure accounts because of confusing UX. If I have to deal with live.microsoft.com I won’t use it. But, if you let me login with GitHub I might try it out. I don’t want to link my GitHub account. I want that to be the primary account used to access VS Live.

I’m guessing that won’t happen though since you’ll want everyone to be ready to use Azure.