I get why the feature exists, but it's my humble opinion that a "brick your device" button shouldn't exist. Repeating myself, some alternatives with similar levels of antitheft whil being much more pleasant for the user:

- Don't enable that kind of reset functionality if that kind of antitheft is enabled

- Warn the user about the potential bricked device, and require an additional confirmation

- Don't require a ping to Google servers when you can verify account ownership just via a matched password hash

Antitheft is fine and dandy, but the implementation is bad.