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Although i can understand your point of view the ARO has a job to do and that job is to make sure the local airport rules, acts, legislation's are all being adhered to because if they are not then there is a fair chance the ARO will then be in strife for not enforcing them. ASIC checks are a pain in the backside but it is something that has to be done regardless of what the thoughts are of the officer doing it or the person being checked.
You have to have some sympathy for pilots. Conditions of use and local airport TSP's are all well and good, but if you visit every security controlled airport in a state as part of your job you will be lucky to find any two the same. It's all well and good to say that as a professional you should make yourself aware of all the permutations of rules and restrictions at your destinations, but commercial pilots generally have a bit of other stuff going as well. Some ports are happy to allow access via the terminal, some aren't, some have dedicated gates and aprons for GA, some don't. Some use coded gates, some use guarded gates. Some regularly take down ASIC details, some don't. The problem is that Transport Security Programs are left up to the individual airport to design, and are rarely available for itinerants to peruse. What you are left with is what looks, from the outside, like a series of randomly enforced, infinitely variable and often unexplainable local regulations that aren't adequately published anywhere, not even in ERSA. Is it any wonder pilots occasionally jack up?