i agree. but most sites that enforce a policy (8 chars, symbols, etc) are bruted just as easily. we need to take a step, away from passwords, to secure against brute force in 2022
well the gp's point is that it literally is not 'just as easy' because the space of possible passwords increases greatly with each character, such that 'dog' is much, much easier to bruteforce than 'doggie12'.
To be fair, I'd probably crack doggie12 sooner than dog because who has ever seen a website with a password length requirement below 6. But technically, yep you're 100% right.