That is my main objection as well, but perhaps it's time to also revisit TOFU.
Remember when Github had to rotate its host keys? It was hitting the news far and wide, and likely broke pretty close to every single CI pipeline out there. There was little heads up because it's the friggin host key, you have to act now.
It's also pretty annoying when you have to deal with that in your own infra. Even if you have a pretty good network/service map, you'll probably have silent breakage somewhere.
I'm not saying CAs should be the future of SSH, but TOFU is certainly a problem at scale.
Some day very soon everyone is going to get some uncomfortable lived experience showing just how dangerous and damaging putting all of our communications eggs in a handful of easily controlled corporate baskets is. It's now calvinball out there and distributed, not centralized, solutions are going to be required to route around the damage. The people who lived through it last time made the internet. And now that they're mostly retired or dead we're removing all the robustness they built in just to better align with employers' profit-motive use cases.
But we don't have to do that. Not on our own time. Don't use QUIC unless you're getting paid to do it.
I agree that we do need more decentralization, but for the decentralized infrastructure to scale, we need better building blocks. Internet is a much, much bigger place now. TOFU doesn't scale.