Hot take maybe, but passkeys feel like passwords with better marketing.
I tried switching a few accounts and the moment I had to change phones, everything felt fragile. If I lose the device, I lose the key. That doesn’t feel like progress. What am I missing?
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You’re not wrong about the fear, but the framing is off.
Passwords are portable. That’s actually the problem. You can copy them, reuse them, leak them, forget where you reused them. Passkeys aren’t meant to be portable at all. They’re tied to the device on purpose.
The discomfort is less about the tech and more about giving up the idea that the “secret lives in your head.”
I’m somewhere in the middle.
Passkeys kill phishing. That alone is a huge win. But they also assume your device setup is clean. Same phone, cloud sync working, no weird edge cases. If that’s not true, things get painful fast.
From a security angle, passkeys win. From a day-to-day ops angle, passwords are still more forgiving.
I don’t see this as a replacement thing.
Passkeys are what you use when everything is normal. Passwords are what you fall back to when something breaks.
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