> Why can't we have this for the web?
How do you propose to scale trust on first use? SSH basically says the trusting of a key is "out of scope" for them and makes it your problem. As in: You can put on a piece of paper, tell it over the phone, whatever, but SSH isn't going to solve it for you. How is some user landing on a HTTPS site going to determine the key used is actually trustworthy?
There have actually been attempts at solving this with some thing like DANE [1]. For a brief period Chrome had DANE support but it was removed due to being too complicated and being in (security) critical components. Besides, since DNSSEC has some cracks in it (you local resolver probably doesn't check it) you can have a discussion about how secure DANE is.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
So DNS-adjacent protocols are supposed to be handling this TOFU directory,
but industry behemoths are too busy pushing other self-serving standards to execute together on this?
Am I…close?