I wonder why they chose a system or workflow that breaks with what we are pretty much doing everywhere else in the world: chip + PIN. It works, it's fast and reliable. And with optional NFC it's even faster.
While people can always make up arguments for some edge case where it wouldn't work for them, that is anecdotal at best. Resisting change it only going to hurt (economically, technically, knowledge-wise) in the long run. I know that learning from history is not humanity's greatest skill, but actively working against what turned out to be a bad practise seems rather.. strange.
And at the same time, some commercial services jump in to fill the void, which is not something you probably want either due to the risk of monopoly, data sharing and other privacy concerns.
While people can always make up arguments for some edge case where it wouldn't work for them, that is anecdotal at best. Resisting change it only going to hurt (economically, technically, knowledge-wise) in the long run. I know that learning from history is not humanity's greatest skill, but actively working against what turned out to be a bad practise seems rather.. strange.
And at the same time, some commercial services jump in to fill the void, which is not something you probably want either due to the risk of monopoly, data sharing and other privacy concerns.