Once I got to your method for coming up with "unique" passwords for each site I thought this article was meant to be funny and that you're conclusion was going to be to just use a password manager. If that method works for you, great. But it will not for the vast majority of people. Between personal and work logins I must have over 2000 passwords to manage. And having a pattern that can be derived is not going to work. There's no way I'm going to remember a fraction of all the logins I need to remember, especially the ones I only need 2 or 3 times a year.

Password managers encrypt your information. A breach might lead to the discovery of simple passwords that shouldn't be used anymore. But another benefit of using a password manager is using the random generator that will give a 20-character password that meets all the current criteria. I guess passkeys will move us all past this eventually, but for now most of us need help.