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"So that means it's impossible for many people to remember their passwords."

Good. Human-memorable is machine-crackable.

More seriously, there's work being done on this front, but specifically along the lines of eliminating passwords, because passwords are a terrible method of authentication.

See: FIDO Alliance https://fidoalliance.org/

Or my preferred item, the Yubikey: https://www.yubico.com/

In other words, a lot of your assumptions aren't necessarily correct (and there's competing interests. If I were writing a standard, I'd have all passwords be 20-characters minimum. However, that's not good for user experience)

Passwords are the worst form of authentication except for all the others.

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