There’s software for one and then there’s “Apple Watch type shit” which is tech that is highly personal and seems useful on paper but is absurdly extraneous - like calorie tracking, step counting, and being able to check things that are already easy to check.
Not for me.
I like software for people, and in terms of affordances and utility mass buy-in and standardization is part of the point.
I can invent a new kind of key. I could…