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by wolletd 1020 days ago
Because the goal of WebAuthn is to not depend on any companies infrastructure.

And there's work being done in that direction. Apple supports passkeys from third-party password managers, 1Password has a Passkey beta and KeePassXC has a pull request working on passkey support. [0]

That independence is a design goal of passkeys, because they want to replace passwords and passwords are independent by their nature.

[0]: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/8825