The USCIS Case Tracker's honesty about what's manual vs. automatic actually matters

Small thing, but worth naming: when I added my receipt number, the tracker was upfront that live sync wasn't active for my case type yet and manual status updates were driving my timeline — no fake "connected" badge implying something was happening automatically when it wasn't. I've used other tools before that make you guess whether a "last checked" timestamp reflects a real automated check or just when you last opened the app. Knowing definitively which one I was looking at changed how I used it — I set myself a weekly reminder to check the actual USCIS case status page and update it manually, instead of assuming the tool had it covered. The processing-time context was the more useful part day to day, honestly — it flagged when my case crossed into "outside the typical window for this service center," with the actual date it crossed that line, rather than a vague sense that things felt slow.