Being behind a rather restrictive firewall at work, I certainly recognize the advantages of HTTP/HTTPS vs. SSH (or anything else). Still, when it comes to not

Being behind a rather restrictive firewall at work, I certainly recognize the advantages of HTTP/HTTPS vs. SSH (or anything else). Still, when it comes to not having to remember or retype passwords for network connections, isn't that exactly SSH's strong suit? I'm all for espousing the advantages of the new thing, but isn't this one of HTTPS's major disadvantages, comparatively? I mean, my github password isn't stored in plaintext on disk anywhere, and I can still do whatever I want without a password (OK, one password per reboot) from any of my machines.