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I still don't get where are you seeing this advice in the article. No one is recommending "6 digit passcodes". AFAIK all contemporary phones use mixed character passwords these days. I just setup a second hand s22 and it asked me to create a full password as primary authentication with all of the brute force strength hints etc.
Your perception might be a bit outdated here.
As I said in my first comment, I’m more familiar with iOS, where 6 digit passcodes are the default.
That said, do you genuinely think the average person would use a random 10+ alphanumeric character passcode to unlock their phone after taking the advice of this article and disabling biometric auth?
Yes the contemporary phones literally bug and warn you if you don't. Password is much easier to remember than 6 digits too imo.