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What did I miss?

Accounts secured with Webauthn instead of a password probably.

Yep!

They send you a one-time code.

That's only for verifying email - it's WebAuthn/Passkeys.

You're ok with cutting off a large number of potential users? Passkey isn't exactly working well on Firefox or Windows right now.