Magic-links Memes

SpongeBob out here spitting straight facts while everyone else panics. Password managers make traditional login stupidly simple - autofill email, autofill password, done. Meanwhile, these "innovative" auth flows with magic links and OAuth redirects turn a 2-second login into a treasure hunt through your inbox or a game of "which third-party service do I trust today?" The real kicker? Forcing passwordless auth on users who literally can't use password managers (looking at you, corporate lockdown environments) or making passwords optional but burying the setting 47 clicks deep in settings. Just because passwordless is trendy doesn't mean it's always better. Sometimes the old ways work perfectly fine, especially when you've got a decent password manager doing the heavy lifting. Let people choose their auth method and stop treating every login flow like it needs to be "disrupted." Not everything needs reinventing, folks.