Probably because these caveats and weird behaviours are platform-dependent, not really the passkey’s fault.

Passkeys really are not any more difficult to explain than 2-factor authentication. Anyone who’s currently been able to actually create an Apple or Google account and successfully navigate their devices up to a passkey screen will be able to grok how it works.

People around here really ought to stop thinking users are complete idiots. Hell, you don’t even to scroll that far to read people calling users “normies” for crying out loud. What is this? High school?

I don't care about the theoretical sufficiently advanced keypass implementation that works perfectly. I want to know about the half baked ones in the real world that I'll have to deal with.

You obviously dont have to deal with anybody who doesnt know how or want to use computers.

Do you know how many Google and Apple accounts my boomer parents have?

Roughly one per smart-phone that they've ever used. They don't know the passwords or even the email address of any of them, not even the latest.