I think this misses who the intended audience of this simple password advice is. Hint: it's not us. Normal people's passwords are terrible! It's the site name,

I think this misses who the intended audience of this simple password advice is. Hint: it's not us. Normal people's passwords are terrible! It's the site name, their name, "password123" or a single word with a number on the end. A lot of advice about passwords is aimed at getting normal people to make easy steps to make their passwords better, not perfectly uncrackable. Complex passwords don't work for lay users and most of them aren't going to switch to password managers. So getting people to make small steps, like not reusing the same password and making it more than one word and a number, does make a big difference to users' security.