What is it with services now separating username and password fields?

https://lemm.ee/post/10130956

What is it with services now separating username and password fields? - lemm.ee

Back in the old times, on the sites I log in regularly, my browser filled in both username and password. I clicked “Log in” once, and I was set to go. But no more. Now it’s all first a username, then a password. From what I saw, Apple started this many years ago, but now this bother really spread. And it’s not like I can just double-click on the same screen area, oh no. Animations make sure that I have to wait several hundred milliseconds before the password field is there, and depending on the site, I even have to select from my browser, which login I want to use, twice! Why, oh why? All my screens are really big enough to display 2 text fields. What are arguments for this behavior? I don’t see any.

A lot of services these days support multiple forms of authentication. Did you sign up with a separate password? Did you use Google or Facebook auth? Is this a corporate account where auth is via their SSO? They don’t even know if or whether they should ask for your password until they know who you are.
This is the answer. I’ve had to build it a handful of times and it always feels bad.