[michaelt]

The standards group that was behind Fido/U2F has been taken over by people who want to push a new product. That new product is "Log in with your phone" and phone lock screens allow biometrics and pins.

Password managers are not relevant, as you don't use a password manager to unlock your phone.

The people behind the takeover don't really give a shit about Yubikey-style tokens (which haven't achieved much market penetration anyway) but they've left them in to make the takeover less blatent.

[kube-system]

More like the other way around -- the existing FIDO/U2F crowd was a bunch of businesses that made money selling keys. And that's why adoption was a rounding error, it was infinitely more expensive than a free password, so few implemented it. This is the obvious solution -- we're already carrying devices with a secure enclave, just use that, it's free.