real password instead of little balls

Hello from Tennessee, all my dear UNAtarian friends,

The Cold War is over. Most of us and our clients today are not dealing with government secrets. So, there is nobody looking over our shoulders 99.99 percent of the time. If they were, we could just twist or tilt our device screens a little bit...

For every person who has been "protected" by the cutesy little password balls - a thousand others have been frustrated. Or worse, they have needlessly been sent to "password recovery" hell.

Could these balls be eliminated altogether or could users be given the option to view the literal password as it is entered? 

If so, please make the default as the actual characters of the password. Most people will prefer this, imo, once they get used to it. Which will not take long. Haha.

I think the coding is simple. Perhaps it can be done via Custom Template Additions. If not, where is the file that needs to be adjusted?

We all want the easiest and fastest access to our sites. 

Much thanks for your consideration.