You are describing the immobilizer feature which is missing in Hyundai/Kia sold in the US
They used to, but people got complacent. I remember hearing about people hacking keyless entry systems on luxury cars (belonging to some European footballer for instance) in the mid-2000s, by the 2010s I remember hearing about people stealing Fords and cars like that.
In the 1970s Americans were terrified of car thefts, it got very hard to do, then carmakers started slipping.