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Even Google fell for that one recently.

Didn't Facebook fell for it too?

No. Never.

Could "Never" be defined as a time frame from year 2012 to at least 2019 ?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275837/facebook-plain-t...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/faceb...

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-cha...

this is super common in my experience, along with checking creds into the repo

I swear - our 'single sign on' that requires a new login on every single system just trains people to put in their username/password without thought....

This is true, but the way the article is worded it makes it very much sound like the passwords were being stored cleartext.