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Consider that a 'username+password' is much harder to 'revoke' individually. As in, you can have 3-4 API keys in use, and can revoke any one of them without having to change a password.
You can also change password independently of the keys, or have it linked so keys are revoked on a password change. It also allows traceability as to where accesses are coming from (auditability). If everything is using the same client-id+secret (or usn/pwd), you don't know which 'client' is doing what.
Yeah, mentioning password it was just an analogy, the user has their credentials independent of this implementation, so no need to reset their password for any flow here. It'd be client id+secret.