All of those things can be verified before storing the password in any way, encrypted or not, and checking them would be a requisite before storing it.

While it’s true that they don’t have a significant impact on the hash generated, they make it significantly more difficult for anyone to guess your password. It’s much easier to guess password321 than something like Or^9L%u&QQ12XxI@. And that has nothing to do with how the password is ultimately stored.

I’m definitely trying to be, which isn’t difficult considering that my last comment there was a year ago, and I only made 5 comments that year.

I’d been on reddit for 11 years, and I was more active back then, but I sort of started to just lurk more as time went by, probably because there was an ocean of comments in every post