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I think point 3 is a good example of 'less is more' being applied in a wrong manner. Double email-address form fields are indeed silly, but passwords are invisible. The second field is there to catch typos (it is unlikely users make the same typo twice) and copy-paste mishaps.

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But then again, you can always reset the password if you made a typo.

  - Username and password should enable you to change the email
  - Email alone should enable you to reset the password

So there is no risk in removing both duplicate fields. But maybe by now it's expected to type in a password twice. Users might be so used to it that it feels wrong to only insert it once.

But then again, you can always reset the password if you made a typo.

Exactly. We dropped the "confirm your password" box in our forms a while ago.