I have been trying to find out how to make citations to look like
[Lastname year]
in the text. As an example:
The results are from [Smith 2016].
And in the references the list would have a line.
[Smith 2016] Smith, A.J, Results, Journal 5 (2016).
How can I do that?
And no, "et al." cannot ne visible, not like this:
The results are from [Smith et al. 2016].
At this point any command that gets rid of that "et al." is acceptable, even multiplatform post processing.

biblatex3.13 is released with the changes for https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/861, it will also be possible to use my answer to the same question, which does not abuse thealphabeticstyle. – moewe Jun 30 '19 at 10:23