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This is my first post, so I apologise if I'm retreading old ground or missing on some of the forum etiquette here.

I just robbed a house, where I managed to get all the way into the vault, safely avoiding traps but closely followed by a pit bull.
It was close but I'd reached it and I knew I was safe... until it turned out the vault was empty.
Because it was empty, I was trapped. It didn't count as robbing the house so I was still there and died.

I'm assuming that someone else had robbed that vault, so it still counted as empty and that's why I got no money from it. (if I am wrong I'd appreciate someone correcting me)

Does anyone else think this is a bit of a problem? It means you can have technically done everything correctly in the house but because someone else beat you to it you end up getting a game over. There was no way I could've spotted that the vault was empty before entering that final room where I was cornered.
I know the game is meant to be punishing but this doesn't seem like a punishment for any mistake on my part.
Even if I reached the safe and escaped but lost money or something, it'd be ok but I personally think a game over is overly harsh.

Maybe I'm wrong, perhaps I've misread the kind of punishing this game wants to be. What do other people think about this?