This is especially true if you simply increase the minimum password length to a certain amount. The major browsers include password managers for specifically this purpose which can generate passwords; why don't we move towards educating users how to use these tools instead of centralizing all the failure points of the web?

And yes, I understand the major conflict of interest in saving important passwords to Google, which I personally don't do and wouldn't recommend, but I think if they're interested in staying out of the Googleverse, we can also tell people about the good paid alternatives out there.

Paid vs Google seems a bit of a false dichotomy. Bitwarden and countless other such programs are completely free for normal usage. The freemium stuff comes in for business and uses far beyond just a password manager.

why don't we move towards educating users how to use these tools instead of centralizing all the failure points of the web

Because there are vested interests in doing the latter. That said, I don't trust password managers either.