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Can you point to a time Amazon did something like that? Not saying they won't, just any company can do it, it's more likely when they've done it in the past.

Everytime I dig into PAKEs, I find disappointment. If we all used a PAKE from the start of computers, maybe we'd be better off, but that's just because we would have been burned by them a dozen times. Right now the tech is very immature and asking a Dev to use these is essentially asking them to pick a cipher mode and padding for AES. There are no browser native SRP implementations and WebCrytpo doesn't support the primitives. The complexity these add isn't worth it for your vanilla website, IMO.

I disagree with:

can’t easily jump to another the way they can at Google or Apple.

I've never worked at Google or Apple, but I work in AWS. I see people switching teams, across different organizations within AWS and the retail business. When I first started, you had to stay on your team for 1 year before you could transfer, now there is no such restriction.

I will agree with the

encouraging teams to operate independently using whatever technology makes the most sense