Not that it matters, really, but I still don't know what to think about this choice. It's clear you've given this a lot of thought and your reasoning makes sense.

It's the same feeling I have every time I intentionally choose an airport without AIT so that I don't have to deal with this. Maybe I should be lining right up to the scanner every time, so I can register my mostly-ineffective protest?

It's a tough place the government has pointlessly put us in. So I'm personally doing my best not to judge and accept that people of good conscience can arrive at different conclusions about what is "best".