Then I would suggest you're missing a large part of the point. When's the last time you heard about a theft that actually involved a picked lock?
It's super rare in practice, because lockpicking is a high-skill sport, and most criminals are not doing crime for the skill or the sport of it.
Theft almost always relies on doors that weren't locked in the first place, chains that were locked but easily cut, or simply going Kool-Aid-man through a wall or a fence or whatever. The fact that locks CAN be picked for sport has nothing to do with how often they ARE picked in the real world.
Knowing about locks, though, gives you the advantage of a bunch more knowledge. Like how common the CH751 key is, or how stupid the "TSA lock" idea is. Or understanding why you shouldn't post proud photos of the key to your new house on social media. (If I ever do this, I plan to troll the audience by dangling a 1284X in front of the camera.)
It's a good point; once you start thinking about it you realize that the locks are only a (small) part of overall security. For example, can someone break a nearby window pane and unlock the door? Can they bust open the door with a strong kick? Are the windows on the second floor (for a house) always locked? A good book on this topic, about how differently thieves think about space and common security features, is "A Burglar's Guide to the City".
You’re generally trying to make a burglar rob somebody else’s house instead of your own, which is why things like visible cameras, nighttime lighting, and dogs are more important than locks.
You can’t really defend against a determined adversary. I lived down the road from somebody who had a significant collection of rare coins. He had good locks, hardened doors, and a state of the art security system which was bypassed by using a chainsaw to cut a hole in the wall of his house.
Also, some security mechanisms can make your home less safe by making it difficult to escape in the event of a fire. A fireman once told me he’s seen people die in fires because there were security bars over the windows and they couldn’t get out.
I've thought about that a lot recently as I have a double cylinder deadbolt I want to replace our single cylinder one with, since the door has 3 panes of glass that can be easily smashed allowing the single deadbolt to then be easily opened.
Sounds great until you think about a fire situation. I think we're just going to keep an extra key very close by but that solution only works because we don't have kids; I'm not sure I would go with the double cylinder deadbolt if we did.
(And yes I know it's against the building code but I also know people regularly do double cylinders on their own personal homes. You'd never do it in a rental, AirBnB or commercial building of course.)
At least in my region in France they would usually use a small haydraulic the-opposite-of-press to push the door. A few seconds, your lock does not matter, ghe weakest point will give up first.
It's super rare in practice, because lockpicking is a high-skill sport, and most criminals are not doing crime for the skill or the sport of it.
Theft almost always relies on doors that weren't locked in the first place, chains that were locked but easily cut, or simply going Kool-Aid-man through a wall or a fence or whatever. The fact that locks CAN be picked for sport has nothing to do with how often they ARE picked in the real world.
Knowing about locks, though, gives you the advantage of a bunch more knowledge. Like how common the CH751 key is, or how stupid the "TSA lock" idea is. Or understanding why you shouldn't post proud photos of the key to your new house on social media. (If I ever do this, I plan to troll the audience by dangling a 1284X in front of the camera.)