User blog comment:Dominic1743/“The Heroes' Journey” Discussion/@comment-44905711-20200124024009/@comment-3169324-20200126103424

Their lock-picking attempt in this episode was terrible and would only work on a certain type of lock that's so bad, people who practice locksport use it for training.

I think they were just "catching up" to all the common problems they missed out on during their ~15 years as main characters. It looks like they're cursed because it's all coming in at once.