Yeah there's no reason for these to be passworded, they should work like every other open channels - general and the class channels. I posted about this last week but no one responded and I have no idea how they get that little 'Dev' tag added to threads.
They were password protected until well after PoP was released on Ragefire. It was eventually fixed in a patch. Surprised it is still bugged on Agnarr.
It's a conscious choice by someone to password the default channels. Daybreak can and will suspend your account if you do so.
It's been like this since SoL launched on Agnarr, I'm not sure why they haven't bothered to correct the issue before now.
I tried to last week, my post had a lot of views but no replies and it vanished with all the spam complaining about what is and isn't on the TLPs lol