I don't think this is that big of a deal though. Also, I don't know if other people do this, but I don't actually use the pass scripts, and instead have my own

I don't think this is that big of a deal though. Also, I don't know if other people do this, but I don't actually use the pass scripts, and instead have my own scripts for managing things that just happens to be very similar to pass. I extend it in whatever ways I want to. If I cared about this issue I would probably consider putting the passwords in a file system on a loopback mounted luks volume backed by a regular file, or maybe just store them in a different format altogether. I do realize that the average user doesn't want to bother with all of this and wants something that "just works".