I do not think You are wrong. However, sometimes You do not need 
application-wide but instance-wide locking. For example let's assume this:

class SomeClass{
  static SomeObject someObject = null;
  SomeObject getSomeObject(){
    if(someObject == null){
      //Long Initialization
      someObject = ...;
    }
    return someObject;
  }
}
If the initialization is long it is possible that many threads will enter 
the if(someObject == null) block. I'd like to avoid that. After all long 
processing can cost me money.

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