@Havenswift Hosting replied;How is it not smart ?First, for the same reason that taking the locks out of cars is not smart: the key-lock, like the login, works as intended. All that is asked, is that we actually use them. Both are quite effective, simple and familiar. The suggested response being promoted here, is to replace the part of the system that is not broken; that is functioning correctly & as-designed.
Are you advocating not doing anything different because it is new !No, no - not at all! Like most of us here, I got a serious genetic thing going on for the new. Bring it on! :)

No; I'm protesting the "imperative", and the "infinitely better" angle. I think that your tool, and others responding to the same perceived needs, have potential and will find roles. I just can't see ... demanding that we go ripping the whole steering column outa the car, because some folks leave the key in the lock.

Let's talk a few moments about who "these" people are, with the bogus passwords & usernames. The big brute-force bot-net going around these days, glancing for the keys in the ignition .... it focuses on advanced, powerful, professional accounts. It hunts for the accounts of those who really & truly should know better. We aren't talking about 'little' people, the twits that we'll never get through to.

Oh, no .... we are in fact talking about the super-elite domain-provider who left their top-level keys dangling from the steering column, necessitating that the New York Times and dozens of other tip-top domains on the planet, had to disable their DNS servers. In recent days. After the 100,000-strong bot-net got our hair all pointy.

We are talking here about WordPress itself, and even Matt Mullenweg himself, who for years made the username on ALL installations, "admin". You couldn't change it to something better. Right now, we have important Network Administrators online with serious responsibilities .... who's username was automatically set to "admin", when they first installed the product, years ago.

Simpler, incremental, proven improvements are immediately at hand. Evolution is preferable to Revolution. The scourge of weak usernames & passwords is easily ameliorated, by including some nice prompts & wizard-action at the Login. We can gently guide people to make better use of the "perfectly good tool", already at their disposal .... and we should take those steps, before we either blame the tool that is not at fault, or scapegoat all "these" piddly users ... who after all, really aren't the scarier part of the laxity-phenomenon.