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Nobody is going to pick a bike lock, other than YouTubers. They'll use brute force or cut it.
^ This.

The Lock Picking Lawyer makes entertaining videos. (Fun fact 1: Harry Houdini picked locks as part of his Vaudeville act 100 years ago.) Number of bicycles the Lock Picking Lawyer has stolen off the street in his videos: 0.

Is an OnGuard Brute 5000 still a decent lock?
For some 35+ years I used my 1977 Citadel u-lock. Yeah, I used it in places where other bikes were stolen. My bike was never nicked. I used good locking technique, and there were always nicer bikes around locked with little cables.

I can't speak to your locking environment and I don't know your locking technique, but your 2007 OnGuard Brute is still a fine bike lock.

Fun fact 2: the majority of America's vending machines and laundromats have tubular locks.
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