Yes, Alex. Simple and clean is good. Your dedication to this ideal is apparent and makes this a great platform. Thanks.

Just make it 'show password' by default. There are no foreign spies or ID thieves looking over our shoulders 99.9999% of the time. Even with balls, they could still see which keys you were typing.

This whole 'password balls' thingy is colossal waste of time which has produced countless wasted hours for NOTHING. 

People who know but accidentally mis-type their password - because they cannot see it - are then sent to "password reset". Usually required to change their password again and make things further confused. Or they are assigned one which cannot be remembered.  :)

Biggest gimmick on the whole internet. Some developer with a large pocket protector years ago said: "We can do this - so we shall do it." And every one else followed without question. Until me...

For every time a security breach has been saved by these cute little balls, ten million others have had to do a time-wasting password reset or call customer service because they were "locked out" of their account after 3 attempts. 

Hey, don't accuse me of not having any opinions... Haha.    OP