First, there are a couple situations where I don't recommend a Detroit Locker. Like if your wife/girlfriend needs to be able to drive it and they won't like anything that doesn't drive 100% normal like a car or one with a selectable locker that can be turned completely off. My wife would have freaked out driving it the first time a tire chirped and would never want to take the time to figure out how it likes to be driven. Or if you have to drive on icy roads or icy trails, I wouldn't go for a Detroit then either. No automatic locker like a Detroit or Aussie does well on slick ice.
But if it's just you as the driver and you don't have to worry about ice, I believe it's a great choice for most of us. So far as automatic lockers go, the Detroit Locker is definitely the best behaved. Detroit Lockers used to have a terrible reputation and deservedly so. The first generation Detroit Locker banged & lurched a lot, it was not very street friendly. But the second generation Detroit Locker was redesigned to get rid of 99% of its quirks. It was semi-officially renamed the Softlocker though it is still most commonly referred to as the Detroit Locker.
Once you learn how it likes to be driven, and a Detroit Locker quickly teaches you that, you will find it is very well behaved on the street 99% of the time. That 1% can be slight occasional 'lurch' or it might make a noise. The TJ I had my Detroit Locker in was my daily driver and I put at least 100 miles a day on it in my outside sales job. Whenever it would 'remind' me of its presence, like every couple days, it was a gentle one that would just make me smile. But 99% of the time, it was well behaved and no one riding with me ever noticed anything unusual.
The trick to a Detroit Locker is this... don't apply power through turns, give it neutral power. Neither accelerate nor decelerate through a turn. That neutral throttle makes it easy for the Detroit to unlock through turns so it's a complete non-issue. Give it hard gas through a turn and the tires will chirp through the turn since it doesn't unlock easily if you're giving it a lot of gas. I got in the habit of neutral throttle through turns so I didn't even have to think about it, it became second-nature. And it only took a day or two to get to the point it became second nature, it was an easy process I didn't even have to think about.
