alt Hacker News> Is there another term they could be classfied as?
As an advertised feature of the product.
Your personal definition doesn’t match the general understanding of the word and concept. By your definition every window on a house or car is a “backdoor”. Anything with an advertised fallback is a backdoor. And sometimes the “front door” is the back door: getting money from an ATM is less secure than with an ID at the bank teller.
Password resets aren't "backdoors" unless they contain a flaw the defeats any security protections. It's not just that the backdoor is less secure than the front, the backdoor has no security or is so easily defeated the security may as well not exist.
I'm surprised the hidden aspect of backdoor is so forward in folks minds. In my thinking nothing in cyber security is hidden, I drop the obviously present hidden part of backdoor definition when it's used in yhe cyber security context.