Mike – We’re on the same page, it sure could be more usable, and probably won’t spread if it says that way forever. But I’m almost sure that it won’t evolve much on an usability standpoint before wider adoption. And maybe it won’t even be OpenID because it will be found to be too restrictive for future needs, and that another project will spin off it. Who knows…

To push speculation a notch further, browser integration could be an easy way to make it available to a large public and make it more usable at the same time. An out of the box Firefox & Safari support, and major brands like Yahoo & Google backing it in their various apps & services could be a success scenario. We’ll see! 🙂