So I worry that you think that the equal transit time thing is true, but is just one effect among others. This is not the case. There are a number of different effects, including bernoulli and coanda and newtons third law that all contribute to lift, but none of the things that actually happen have anything to do with equal transit time.

The equal transit time is not a partially correct explanation, it's something that doesn't happen. It's not a superficial explanation, it's a wrong explanation. It's not even a good lie-to-children, as it doesn't help predict or understand any part of the system at any level. It instead teaches magical thinking.

As to whether it matters? If I am told that I can ask my question to a system and it will respond like a team of PhDs, that it is useful to help someone with their homework and physical understanding, but it gives me instead information that is incorrect and misleading, I would say the system is not working as it is intended to.

Even if I accept that "audience matters" as you say, the suggested audience is helping someone with their physics homework. This would not be a suitable explanation for someone doing physics homework.