A door can be kicked in, a safe can be drilled, a password can be reset. But these keys (whether a phone or a Yubikey) to your digital life are irreplaceable if they're all lost. We've never been in this situation before.
The problem with any solution relying on a couple of physical devices as the sole access to your digital life is that the management and protection of those objects becomes one of the most important things in your life. These keys are supposed to give perfect security so by design making "software" copies brings that security to the level of passwords. But losing them kills your digital life.
You have two keys in the house and you have a fire or severe natural disaster? There's no reset for them and you just piled a tragedy on top of another. You want to restore them from a backup? You probably need the keys to begin with. People need one on them at all times, one at home, one or two in some other safe far away location but to still trust that they won't be misused there.
That's all people hear when they look into passkeys. "One more key" is not enough for most people, tech savvy or not.
The problem with any solution relying on a couple of physical devices as the sole access to your digital life is that the management and protection of those objects becomes one of the most important things in your life. These keys are supposed to give perfect security so by design making "software" copies brings that security to the level of passwords. But losing them kills your digital life.
You have two keys in the house and you have a fire or severe natural disaster? There's no reset for them and you just piled a tragedy on top of another. You want to restore them from a backup? You probably need the keys to begin with. People need one on them at all times, one at home, one or two in some other safe far away location but to still trust that they won't be misused there.
That's all people hear when they look into passkeys. "One more key" is not enough for most people, tech savvy or not.