Maybe I'm getting tinfoil-y here, but I think the horribleness is the point: consider how eager Apple in particular is to get people fully enmeshed in their services ecosystem. You're a lot less likely to try to roll your own backup, or otherwise exit the walled garden, if doing so means your entire auth story is irredeemably fucked.
The thing that strikes me about this whole story is that during a lot of the initial discussions of passkeys, a common point brought up on the anti-lockin side was the ability to use non-phone providers like yubikeys. If the actual implementations make this less viable, as discussed in the article, then that shifts power towards lock-in.
> I do think their religious beliefs were relevant to policy. The US was very cognizant of this when they demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan.
That's certainly the Chrysanthemum and the Sword take on it. I'd agree that American conceptions of Japanese religious beliefs influenced American policy. The extent to which emperor-worship was truly inculcated in the population at large is still subject to scholarly debate, but the trend is toward understanding that Japanese internal religious propaganda doesn't necessarily reflect deeply-held cultural beliefs. It's unquestionable that タケヤリで (with bamboo spears) was a thing to an extent and that an invasion of the mainland would have been a clusterfuck, but I personally see it (as described up-thread) as more ascribable to the comprehensive failure of the nation's autocratic elites at holding non-idiotic worldviews, rather than them (or the population at large) being hyper-fanatic State Shintoists.
The military-political establishment had spent the past decade or more basically purity-spiralling out anyone seen as insufficiently dedicated to the cause of imperial expansion.
To me, the most striking example of this is what happened to Ishiwara Kanji[1]. This is the guy who gekokujou'd Manchukuo into existence, so not exactly a cautious humanitarian.
Ishiwara later got purged for opposing further expansionism in China: he thought that grabbing Manchukuo had been enough to assure Japan's quest for autarky in vital military materials, and that continued messing around in China would accelerate confrontation with the West and act as a resource drain on Japan's ability to shape itself into a militarily self-sufficient state. He was totally right, of course, but got it in the neck anyway.
There's a lot more examples of this, both in the military branches and in elite political circles. I highly recommend the scholarly book Japan Prepares For Total War[2] if you're interested in the details. The result, though, was that many voices of reason were explicitly removed from power for being too reasonable. At this point in the war, the cast of characters running the show weren't able or willing to see sense and had insulated themselves from all advice and criticism.
The thing that strikes me about this whole story is that during a lot of the initial discussions of passkeys, a common point brought up on the anti-lockin side was the ability to use non-phone providers like yubikeys. If the actual implementations make this less viable, as discussed in the article, then that shifts power towards lock-in.