Yup. I managed a hostel in Ecuador for 5 months, and the vast majority of European travelers swore they would never again transit through America due to the nightmares they had experienced with security and immigration, all for a 1 hour layover in the airport.
Exactly. I'm Canadian and because of the TSA, I don't travel through the US anymore, even if it means my ticket
are a couple hundred dollars more expensive.
Most of those people have the power to vote this nightmare away though. If they won't then they're just getting what they wanted (if you think I'm being extreme, there are people in this very thread claiming this is necessary after all the evidence that's shown conclusively that it's useless).