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Why is this such a big deal? You wasted the time to signup for the beta program, made the payment, and now you change your mind? This is more to do with the fact that they don't want people activating it, seeing that it barely does anything, and then passing it on to another person who will simply do the same thing. You don't want to commit to a project? Tough luck. You either send it back so the company themselves can pick another worthy individual, or deal with being stuck with it.
This is not a finalized product that is ready for consumer consumption. That is why they did the signups the way that they did and ended up giving it to mostly high profile people and people who are not like me and you and sit in front of ebooks all day. It's a product for people who like to "explore", and taking pictures of your everyday coffee, your cat, and your grocery shopping, is not what they're after.
I remember when Lytro was calling for beta testers, and the people who wanted a try had no clue, just NO CLUE at how selfish they sounded when their reasoning for wanting one was for taking pictures of their family and pets. Some guy was even after one for a research project he needed to have done by the end of the month.
And when those types of people get ahold of something in beta, it leads to problems. Because then they start to complain about how this and that were bad, and that no one should be bothering to get it. They treat it as if they actually invested their own money into it. And in the case of Google Glass, you HAVE to invest money to get the developer hardware, which makes it even more of a problem.
They are just trying to keep it under control while it's still in development. When it's available for you and I to pre-order once it's done for, there's going to be absolutely no problem with authorizing and de-authorizing our Google accounts.
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