>...the smaht guys think they know better, to a pathological extent where they tell other people what they ought to do with their things .

Not just tell, actually nag, coerce and force, often in the teeth of their own total idiocy.

"Your password needs to be between 8 and 15 characters and include an upper case letter, a symbol and a number. (And an actually good, strong password will be rejected).

See that all the time, still, in 2026. So very smaht.