“Older cars, like the one I can afford, didn’t have all the interlocks that the cars you rich bastichies think everyone who isn’t scum drive, did indeed lock up the steering wheel when the ignition was turned off.”
ALL cars with steering wheel locks have had an off position before the lock position, from day one.
It isn’t that the cars you had couldn’t be turned off without locking the steering, it’s just that you never learned how to operate them.
Just out of curiosity, how do you turn off one of those newfangled cars with a start button?