The details coming out of the Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania recounts are stunning. If they're what's normal, the United States has made election verification impossible (if not actually illegal!). This isn't good. Democratic elections only work when we, the people, can trust them. One way of trusting the system is knowing that we can always just count people's paper ballots again, by hand, with multiple people (preferably from each of the campaigns involved) watching. Without that, various forms of fraud are much more possible (and therefore likely).
There needs to be a process and fund for recounts, at the state and/or federal level. What the Stein-campaign's-funded recount proves is that states are not prepared for a recount, either logistically or legally. For all we know, as unlikely as it may be, there could have been systematic tampering in a few key locations, which, if investigated, could mean one or more of those states went to Clinton instead of Trump. Since we can't (reasonably) prove otherwise, trust in the democratic process drops, and all elections are more suspect going forward.