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> I'm tired of websites deciding that a password is not strong enough simply because it does not contain enough random subsclasses of basic ACSII characters

me too. and i'd guess at least half of people put 1! at the end to fulfil the requirements anyway.



Of course, because such requirements are adversarial and make no sense. So they need an adversarial and nonsensical solution :)




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