The consensus is that the ideal steal % is around 30 in sh nl games...

However, isn't this far more relative to table selection?

For example, if we have 2 players in the blinds who are only folding 65% of the time to steals, isn't it non-profitable to steal?

from my math, it looks to me like we need to be successful from the cutoff/button about 70% of the time, and about 61% from the sb.

so if we're stealing from CU, and we expect the button to fold 90%, SB 80%, and BB 75%, isnt this a non-profitable play?
.90x.80x.75=54%

so were winning 54% of the time, when we need to be at 70?

what are the other considerations that is making cu steals profitable?

I assume cbetting, but id like some ideas to help my thought process

to me it looks as though stealing without super tight blinds is pointless, where as stealing with nits in the blinds we should be attempting almost always....