All of those things can be verified before storing the password in any way, encrypted or not, and checking them would be a requisite before storing it.
While it's true that they don't have a significant impact on the hash generated, they make it significantly more difficult for anyone to guess your password. It's much easier to guess password321 than something like Or^9L%u&QQ12XxI@. And that has nothing to do with how the password is ultimately stored.
It'll drive me crazy when I find a place to put something that makes sense, so it goes there so I don't lose it, only to forget where it made sense a week ago and end up losing it anyway
There's an option to block entire instances in Connect; they'd still show up in your browser, but it's good enough if you primarily browse on mobile