I am of the opinion that it does not make much sense to make the user enter a...

I am of the opinion that it does not make much sense to make the user enter a password while registering if the config "Hide password fields on user edit page" is enabled as that password would be of no use to him later. In this case, we should hide it from the user register page as well and set a random password just to ensure the user account doesn't end up with an empty password value.

Adding a patch for this.