One weak argument:
Finance is between 20 and 50 years behind the curve in terms of fundamental/top-down security common sense, notwithstanding the handful of specific exceptions strictly necessary to ensure accounts are not actually made off with on a regular basis.
There are likely a good handful of hair-raising security issues (known and unknown) impacting your account(s) right now, that would cause you to scream and run were to learn of any single one of them (let alone the full list).
In this light, cargo-culting specifically [only] avoiding environments that store passwords in plain text feels like premature optimization.
With the above being said, I do agree with the sentiment raised elsewhere of contacting annoying persistent organizations that will follow up - apparently in this case that's investigative journalists and the OCC.
Just don't forget the bigger picture.