I don't login from new computers often, I have my personal machine and mobile phone. It's great to be able to login from a phone without needing a password manager or manually typing a 50 character randomly generated password where I need to be sitting in front of my main computer to even login. If you really have that many computers you'd still need to sync a password manager between all of them to login with a password.
I also don't browse with incognito mode on sites where I'm expected to be logged in unless I have multiple accounts that I want to have logged in simultaneously.
I also don't routinely switch browsers and if I do I only have to login once per browser and I'm done for a year or however long the site saves it for.
That doesn't sound like insanity to me? I didn't even think about them while writing my original reply because they are such outlier events.
Great, you're one user who likes magic links. It doesn't matter how you (nor I, for that matter) use magic links, the majority of users dislike them for the reasons I highlighted.
When building a site/service/ui/whatever, you take into account the needs of your users, not your own needs exclusively.
You asked: "I really don't understand why so many folks hate magic links." - I responded with an explanation.
I don't login from new computers often, I have my personal machine and mobile phone. It's great to be able to login from a phone without needing a password manager or manually typing a 50 character randomly generated password where I need to be sitting in front of my main computer to even login. If you really have that many computers you'd still need to sync a password manager between all of them to login with a password.
I also don't browse with incognito mode on sites where I'm expected to be logged in unless I have multiple accounts that I want to have logged in simultaneously.
I also don't routinely switch browsers and if I do I only have to login once per browser and I'm done for a year or however long the site saves it for.
That doesn't sound like insanity to me? I didn't even think about them while writing my original reply because they are such outlier events.