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by beagle3 669 days ago
The “database leak” argument is wider, though. It applies to password reuse (or systematic generation) and a leak from another site - which, may be stored in plaintext, or otherwise has a compromised login procedure that leaks passwords regardless of how it’s stored for validation.

You could say - and rightly so - that a person who reuses passwords invited whatever pwnage they get. But these people walk among us, do not use a password manager (often because not tech savvy enough), and passkeys are usable for those people.