exactly, thats not the issue, the field/form is not returning the users actual password stored in the table, its showing the 8 "dots"/placeholder which is irrelevant... hence 8 irrelevant characters,
it should be showing the password not the dots when you click the reveal icon. its not even revealing the password correctly, this should be behaving like the loging password field, which it is not
Plain text will not be shown anymore, and passwords should be hashed. In fact, since v2926, passwords must be hashed, and nobody knows the original plain text password and its length.