It was obviously huge. You could see it taking off. Yet a lot of people proudly displayed ignorance and backed each other up on it to the point that discussion around the topic was often drowned out by the opposition to change. Now today it takes minutes of playing with ai coding agents to realise that it’s extremely useful and going to be similarly huge.
Resistance to change is not a virtue!
Vertical flip phones from forever ago can handle both of these just fine.
2. Most 2FA I deal with involves an Authenticator style app.
3. Missing the point: I want to disable texts altogether. For the decade prior to having a smartphone, I had a cell phone with texts disabled (specifically called the provider to disable them).