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But you don't?
Password managers really are not hard to use. Also there's stuff like the password manager built into iOS, for example, which you don't even have to think about.
My comment about threat modelling was that you do not seem to understand the purpose of password managers. A way bigger problem for the average person online is password reuse, not targeted attacks against password vaults. That is the problem they solve.
The weird trope I've seen now is "don't use the password manager in your browser". For the life of me, I can't think why some think a browser plugin to a commercial password manager is safer than the built in version.
They probably think it's safer somehow. But I don't really get how.
Most built-in password managers allow for you to setup a master password of sorts if you try to sync everything to a new device, and most also require you to use your computer's native verification to view a single password in plaintext or export all of them as plaintext. (For browsers on Windows, they use Windows Hello; for browsers on Android, they use the fingerprint scanner or the lock screen pin.)