This is not a conspiracy, it is safer to have a less complicated but longer password that is compromised of a few random and unassociated words (that you can remember) than to have something more complicated but shorter. This is because if anyone IS trying to brute force rather than use more finesse (methods which mostly_bots detailed which don't vary in success based on password complexity), they will take much longer to access the longer password, and you can have a password like that live in your head much more easily than a bunch of random characters which you'd probably have to save in a password manager