I came across an opinion I largely agree with: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/113308133338196824 and https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/113308273654667583
> These big tech companies will do anything possible to prevent users from ever actually being able to access their own passkeys.
> Export and import should have been extremely simple. Instead, they took years to come up with some convoluted system where the only possibility is to transfer from one vendor lock-in to another vendor lock-in.
> With passkeys, the big tech companies are executing a coup d'état of authentication, just like they did for HTML itself.
> In the end, they control every protocol, become the gatekeepers for the web.
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