I kind of figured as much. Sort of like asking why vehicles aren’t more reliable. Same answer.Because stolen vehicles generate additional sales. Manufacturers could easily make vehicles much harder to steal but they intentionally choose not to.
As much as I dislike more government regulation, making manufacturers provide five years of theft insurance with every new vehicle would almost instantly solve the unattended theft problem and may even solve the carjacking problem as they could easily add vehicle shutdown x minutes or km after a button is pressed.
However, in the case of car theft, they’ve become so easy to steal manufacturers are practically complicit. Insurance companies should be going after them instead of hiking up the rates of the poor sod who just got his whip jacked. But we all know that will never happen - one hand feeds the other……