nobler or more authentic if you refuse to do so yourself or that your pilgrimage is so special that it needs special personal treatment and that you of all people must be given a paper form to fill in
Or, more simply, your Camino simply isn't accurately defined by the pre-registration options ; or your tech is incompatible with the app, or simply -- you don't have any tech.
This "
so special that it needs special personal treatment" rhetoric is unhelpful IMO.
There's also the situation where you may want to provide
multiple reasons for your Camino, which I personally always would, which the app does not permit.
For the Camino Portugués: Resto Galicia; or Resto Portugal
Well, that wasn't me last time ... even
IF I could have used that app, which
I couldn't. Neither of those options were accurate as to my starting point in Monaco.
If you walked a very long distance from a starting point somewhere in Europe or walked a fancy combination of parts of Caminos in Spain, then try to keep track of the kilometres you covered on foot and give the total distance walked to the person at the desk in the Pilgrims Office
If I had done so last time, I think I would have ended up abusively hogging a desk there for an hour or more. I have better things to do than demand that a volunteer there verify a journey of ~4,000K to that point ...
I want no "
special personal treatment". I was in and out last time faster than most who were in the queue with me that day last year, most of whom had most likely pre-registered which is the norm, and even so I want no fuss, no nonsense on my part.
Using the paper form is not a "
special personal treatment".
I do not understand the point of this commentary.
For a Compostela, all your hundreds of kilometers walked towards Compostela do not matter one bit: it is only your last 100 km just before Santiago that matter.
I would say that it is the point and purpose of one's pilgrimage that matter, not these administrative trivialities.