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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 whether they should ask for your password until they know who you are.
And it's impossible to provide for all these options on one screen, with either a password field that some users ignore or some kind of option selection that either hides or shows it?
If you put that much trust in users you are in for a rough time. You'd get tons of "forgot password" requests because people expect to fill in every password field they're presented with. If you ask them what mode of auth they used, they don't know. Heck, I consider myself fairly on top of things, and I don't always remember how I authenticated to some site I rarely visit.
Most users would rather wait for an extra page load than deal with any of the above.