My intuition tells me it's mostly, if not all, security based decisions. Like, the reason that a lock is typically big and heavy and takes a little bit of trouble to open and close.
That’s a nice sentiment, but based on what I’ve seen of how this particular sausage is made, I’m willing to bet it’s literally that no-one with the right amount of influence cares enough about shrinking the package size. So it just stays like that.
My first thought was "I wonder if lockmakers are really protective of their methods / manufacturing process," but realized this information would matter little: the point is that it doesn't matter if people know exactly how the lock is made, because it doesn't make it any faster to open it, and I've only got 2 hands and 24 hours in a day and the time just isn't worth the risk.
> Like, the reason that a lock is typically big and heavy and takes a little bit of trouble to open and close.
The sad part is that making the lock big and heavy usually only makes the intended uses of the lock inconvenient; the unintended bypasses don't care about those.
I mean more metaphoricaly big and heavy. Like, putting in a password is costly. It has to live somewhere. It requires effort. It takes a moment. You have to memorize something. It causes a moment in the flow of utility.
