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by vdelitz 1136 days ago
The only reason probably if some accounts already have a password and you want to support it. If you're building a new app, I'd also go for WebAuthn / passkeys-only and use some other passwordless method (e.g. social login/OIDC or email magic links as fallbacks)
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Ok understood, thank you very much!