So are you telling me that you can continue to enter wrong passwords while the phone is under a lockout period? And doing that will continue to extend the lock

So are you telling me that you can continue to enter wrong passwords while the phone is under a lockout period? And doing that will continue to extend the lockout period? If so, that is an overlooked implementation bug. Apple should fix that. You should not be able to extend the lockout period while the phone is locked out.