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You live in some Detroit-like hellscape where everyone everywhere 24/7 wants to kill and eat you and your family. You go shopping for a deadbolt for your front door, and encounter two locksmiths:
Locksmith #1 says "I have invented my own kind of lock. I haven't told anyone how it works, the lock picking community doesn't know shit about this lock. It is a carefully guarded secret, only I am allowed to know the secret recipe of how this lock works."
Locksmith #2 says "Okay so the best lock we've got was designed in the 1980's, the design is well known, the blueprints are publicly available, the locksport and various bad guy communities have had these locks for decades, and the few attacks that they made work were fixed by the manufacturer so they don't work anymore. Nobody has demonstrated a successful attack on the current revision of this lock in the last 16 years.
Which lock are you going to buy?
Or just, you know, move out of Detroit... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To keep that metaphor going, if you are online, you are in Detroit.