I'm in on anything that prevents the "best practice" of entering new passwords that have esoteric standards of "strength", twice, BLIND, on a crap cellphone "keyboard".

The dots/stars for "password" type input fields might have prevented shoulder surfing in the days of wide-field-of-vision CRT monitors, and typing passwords twice on a real keyboard might have helped decrease people typing something they didn't mean, but it's all irrelevant in the age of narrow field LED cellphones held close to the face, using much smaller fonts.