I have traveled extensively and it highly depends on where you are. If you go to Europe, things are much better for security for one simple reason. These security jobs are real jobs with real wages and real benefits. Probably after 9/11 Bush Jr. and his cronies cooked up a way for them to all profit off of creating a new quasi-governmental agency which was underfunded and underpaid their employees. Now they are seeing the crunch. During the pandemic many of the TSA employees left and aren't coming back like so many other jobs that underpaid before the pandemic. Get used to really bad lines for the next year or two as people spend their pandemic savings on travel.