Let's kill passwords for once and all.

Many baby boomers, like my parents, mistakenly believe that allowing their browser to remember passwords makes their accounts less secure. As a result, they tend to memorize their passwords, which often leads to the use of weak and easily guessable passwords. 

Gaining access to an account is much simpler with a weak or reused password than with the use of strong passwords managed by iCloud Keychain or Chrome.

 They also don’t realize that using a password suggested by the browser allows them to be completely hands-off—there’s no need to strain your brain to create a strong password or even type it out. 

Microsoft Switches to Passkeys By Default, Pledges to Eliminate Passwords
techrepublic.com

A passwordless future would be transformative, removing the necessity for text based second factor in their case. They somehow place considerable amount of trust in this. Big tech coming together to kill passwords is exactly what we need.

Troy Hunt of Have I been pwned had a dumbed down writeup on paskeys for us muggles. Yes they are not as secure as security keys in absolute terms but they are so much more convenient and easy to set up. So we have a better shot at mass adoption of passkeys than security keys. The benefit of masses moving away from static passwords would be huge.