White-con enemies don't usually have healing poultices, heroic defense, fire resist. Your meat shield can have those things.
How many enemies have been fire resistant or immune? I've only really noticed burning-people and rage demons. I noticed revenants are immune to cold and, uh...resistant to not-easy-mode. (OH SHIT THE RESISTS ARE HUGE I WILL CAST VULNERABILITY HEX OH NO VULNERABILITY HEX GOT RESISTED TOO)
So, I sort of regret having a point in lock picking on my PC, and 2 in stealing. I should definitely have put them in coercion. It's a lot more convenient to turn the Orlesian moony bard into your utility bitch and cart her through dungeons after they're clear, and to cart her through town, lightening pockets. The only traps I've really had any issue with so far have been the [spoiler]explosive barrels in a boss room[/spoiler] one-shotting people and those were easily avoidable after a save.