At the end of the day, they were thieves

Couldn't agree more

This movie really did suck.

Couldn't agree with you more. I mean Charlie was a thief since he was a little kid. So that means that he was a thief because he was enjoying being a thief. It's not that he had a traumatic childhood. And you are right they deserved to go to jail. I mean why would they need such expensive things? Why would handsome Rob need an Aston Martin Vanquish? I mean I don't need such an expensive car to be happy. My all time favorite car is an Opel Astra which is not an expensive car. I mean stealing gold would harm the economy. They should have gone to jail. When Charlie found a woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, I doubt that she would want to stay with him after she finds out that he's a thief for his own amusement. If she ever found that out she would leave him in less than a minute. Also if Charlie hadn't planned this heist, John Bridger would not have been killed.

Also that scene where Seth Green's character changes the stop light and causes a car crash just to show Wahlberg he can do it shows what lowlifes these people are.

The person driving the car who should've had a red light will now have it on their record that they ran a red light even though they actually didn't. Their insurance premiums will go up, and for all we know it could've been a single mom with several kids barely making ends meet, or someone else in some other financially difficult situation. Plus they'll have self-doubt about having seen the light correctly, may have guilt over causing the accident, and may never be fully comfortable driving again.

Also an accident like that is enough to cause minor injury or possibly even serious injury if one of the drivers already had a serious health condition.

And yet immediately afterward they just shrug it off like whatever and go back to business without giving it a second thought.

This is a good point. Why are we pushed to like these people?