The point of complaining is to make it known that we don't agree with the haraSSSSment that is the shoe carnival. It doesn't matter that it takes as long as removing shoes would, because the principle at stake is that things like the shoe carnival do nothing to improve our safety and simply act as an inconvenience to travelers.

Personally, I never have the time at IAD to stop to fill out a form OR to go through SSSS, so I remove my shoes--it doesn't matter how early I get to IAD, I'll always be pushing it getting to the gate and don't have time to mess with complaints or SSSS