What a terrible article. The text suggests that Microsoft wants to force you to use passkeys, followed by an attempt by the writer to convince you to use passkeys, when the actual news is "you need to install another app to get autofill from Microsoft's password sync service".

You can just install Edge. From what I can tell, you don't even need to browse using Edge to use passwords.

If you don't use Microsoft Authenticator, nothing changes. If you do, probably because IT makes you, you've already seen the warnings about this.