Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

Article note: Yeah. I'm pretty technical along both the "academic CS" and "practical IT" axes, and I have discomfort reasoning about passkeys. For most users, it just sounds like "I lost my phone or got my Microsoft/Google/Apple account banned, and now I'm locked out of everything" in waiting. Like many folks, I suspect it's primarily a "Get users locked in to vendor ecosystems" thing.