I tend to revolt against this kind of bullshit by creating terrifyingly primitive, pathetic passwords, and flagrantly sharing what my password is, in front of relevant admins, while complaining loudly about the concept of "character diversity," as a way of fomenting popular rebellion.

When I'm met with periodic expiration, I employ constant direct password assistance as a means of unpopular two-factor authentication, to piss people off, and stir the pot.

I then fail my password reset as many times as necessary to recover my preferred password for that system, to enforce to freedom of password selection.

I control my password. Me.

Not you. Me.

Im glad Im not the only one that does this.

Until a website thinks a 1 is an lower case L, and you have the same problem all over again.