That's not intuitive. When I go to a site I know if I remember the password or not. If I have no clue what the password could be I won't even attempt to login. If I don't see the "forgot password" link I would assume the site doesn't have that feature and leave.
Agreed -- particularly because the site may have some kind of lockout feature if I fail too many attempts, there's no chance I'll waste one just to see if there's a forgot password link on the failure screen.
