A great many padlocks will fall to fairly trivial physical attacks; but a great many padlocks don’t cost $100.
At that price point a fairly beefy boron alloy shackle is reasonably common; and those are not impressed by cheap boltcutters.
Against a nice, zesty, angle grinder it’s just a matter of time for pretty much anything made of matter; but 12in cutters are very much on the low end of physical attacks.
