I cannot possibly game out all future adverse design choices that a vendor may make. Today, October 14th 2026, Passkeys offer more upsides to me than they do downsides, so I use them
If a particular app vendor or website changes how they accept or use Passkeys, then I won't use them for that app or site. If my computing platform vendor(s) make it harder or worse to use Passkeys then I'll bail out
There's a lot of what-ifs in every decision, and I cannot possibly nor would I want to, figure out 82 steps ahead in 4-D chess how company X may try to screw me over
Well, at that point I'll figure out what to do. I can't live my life constantly working around bad design that doesn't actually exist yet
This attitude is the reason design keeps getting more and more user hostile over time.
I cannot possibly game out all future adverse design choices that a vendor may make. Today, October 14th 2026, Passkeys offer more upsides to me than they do downsides, so I use them
If a particular app vendor or website changes how they accept or use Passkeys, then I won't use them for that app or site. If my computing platform vendor(s) make it harder or worse to use Passkeys then I'll bail out
There's a lot of what-ifs in every decision, and I cannot possibly nor would I want to, figure out 82 steps ahead in 4-D chess how company X may try to screw me over
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