Accounts and Users have different email addresses. This can be a good thing and I'm glad it was done this way for optimal handling of one user with access to multiple accounts.
However, one process flow that wasn't considered when these were separated is the change of an email address. Frequently a User logs into an account to change the email address, they find the profile fields for the Account and change it. Then they're super confused as to why they still login with the old email address - this is because they didn't change the *User* email field as well.
One of two things should happen to fix this process flow failure:
1. When changing the email address in the account profile area, if the owner email address is the same, then the owner email should change automatically as well (with a message indicating it will be changed too), or
2. After changing the email address in the account profile area, if the owner email address is now different, a warning should appear indicating that the Account email was changed, but the Owner User wasn't - would you like to update the owner User email address as well? Yes/No where clicking Yes updates it.
Personally I think (1) would make a lot of sense, but can understand how you might prefer (2).
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