It's a reminder that in big parts of todays digital world you own nothing. All access, presumed rights, and data can be taken from you whenever a big company decides to do so. Is it news? Probably not. Are people aware of it? Clearly not - at least nobody acts like it.

I'm glad that Android (still) gives us the option to chose one or the other.

It often means that one could have derived the correct password from the set of rules - but those rules are not shown when asking for the old password