I understand that not only is the app very buggy and unreliable, by design it will not record a wait time > 30 minutes.

So much for fair comparisons.

OT, but AskTSA has officially contradicted itself - surprising, considering I rarely look at it. One response told a pax he could take his tent and tent poles in his carry-on. A more recent response says the tent and poles have to be put in checked baggage.

After 15 years, neither the website nor AskTSA can offer a consistent answer to a simple question. Too bad more frontline TSOs don't understand this. If they did, maybe they'd quit barking at pax for being too stupid to know the unpublished inconsistent rules.