I seriously doubt if those who design these things ever expect them to > go wrong.
This is probably true but what the designers design, the materials engineers specify and what actually gets built after the beancounters have hada look can be very different...
I guess if it was too easy to get open, there would be trouble about > that, ...
Well there ought to be some sort of manual release that is not overly easy to access from inside the car. That is not a popup button with a mushroom head but just a small hole to waggle a screwdriver through that is normally hidden behind some trim.