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Admin of multiple vaults vs overall security
My mom and dad have their own computer each. They are elderly and are awful at understanding how to secure their multiple websites access, and installing 1password on their computer and asking them t...
After reading your post a few times, I am still struggling to understand what you are doing, or the basis for your concern. Supporting technically disinclined folks has no shortage of concerns.
I think you are saying "I'm using password caching in their browsers" to mean that your parents are creating new accounts and storing credentials using their browsers' built-in password storage (which is unrelated to any browser cache), not the 1Password extension. How your subsequent copying relates to this is unclear since you don't explain who is using 1Password, or how they are each using it.
You also make reference to Vaults, admin of Vaults (which is not a thing), and passwords in relation to a Family plan, but make no mention of accounts or how these are used and secured.
As for you and your operational security being a risk, a broader assessment will almost certainly reveal that you are a single point of failure in multiple cases. I suspect that a "hacker" figuring out whatever you mean by your "main password" is (or should not be) a high risk as long as you exercise good information hygiene.
Eliminating yourself a single point of failure for your and your parents' information lives will require sharing responsibilities with other trusted and capable family members, where family can be both logical and biological.
As for "super crazy password"s, you may be overestimating the importance of password complexity. A n unbreached, unique, good, and memorable passphrase which you can reliably type will likely be as safe as you will ever need to secure your other secrets. The complexity these days is in the handling of additional factors such as 2FA Passkeys, recovery codes, Secret Keys, and Emergency Kits.
To get more and better help and advice, I suggest being careful to correctly use terms specific to 1Password and other technologies and avoid undefined constructions such as "main password", "password caching", etc. which can only have precise meaning to you. It may be worth rewriting your post entirely.
