As an aside, I think this is the source of his confusion about password-less accounts. From Google's help page:
> When you create a passkey, you opt in to a passkey-first, password-less sign-in experience
That comma right there reads; "you opt in to a passkey-first _and_ password-less sign-in experience". I understand what they mean, but that kind of marketing speak is often misunderstood by more technically focussed people.
Sure, Google botched some of their communication on their end for sure. But the job of a journalist is to give clarity and pass along as accurate information and valid pros and cons by doing some basic research, so that the readers end up more informed after reading an article. His article did the opposite - see the comment section of the second article for how a lot of people were more confused / misinformed by Ron's article. Of course, not all of that was due to his article, but it's very clear his article made the confusion meaningfully worse.
Oh yeah, I'm not defending the journalism on that piece, just pointing out where he probably got confused. I think I only read it correctly because of all the context in this thread.
As an aside, I think this is the source of his confusion about password-less accounts. From Google's help page:
> When you create a passkey, you opt in to a passkey-first, password-less sign-in experience
That comma right there reads; "you opt in to a passkey-first _and_ password-less sign-in experience". I understand what they mean, but that kind of marketing speak is often misunderstood by more technically focussed people.