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Doesn't using a particular wordlist limits choice, gives attackers a wordlist to generate the password from
Even a "traditional" password would have a "list" that attackers could know (all the possible characters that can be used in a password), now compare this set of +-150 characters with the set of possible words that can be used (probably close to 250k per language if you take out some similarities).
Even with only 4 words, the number of possibilities is astounding.