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Since you should use a password manager anyways, it wouldn't make a difference if they get a randomised password or public key.
If they get your password they can impersonate you to the server. They can't do that with just the public key part of your passkey.
That's true.
Ideally my password should be hashed and salted anyways, so that shouldn't make a huge difference.