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I have a great little password manager that doesn't store them reversibly. Sure, sometimes it's hassle to wait a few hours while it brute forces one, and sure, there's a temptation to use shorter passwords to make that step faster... But the increase in cryptographic security makes me feel a lot better.

Correct, and this is the point that is being missed by so many, despite their hyperbole. Chrome could prevent the display of the password as a design choice, but the password must be reversible otherwise how could you send it on to the authenticating server? Only the authenticating server stores non-reversible hashes.

It is possible with SSO.

No, SSO is different solution to some of the same problems solved by a password manager, it is not a means of having a password manager that stores passwords in an irreversible form.