I agree. Up above it was pointed out that it's bad because a) people use the same passwords across sites, and b) by not allowing peeking at a password, bad emp

I agree. Up above it was pointed out that it's bad because a) people use the same passwords across sites, and b) by not allowing peeking at a password, bad employees are forced to use mechanisms that are more likely to create audit trails, like mechanisms that change a password in the database.