Apiary registration and free state inspection programs — actually worth it, or inviting trouble?

Fourth year, eight hives now in central Texas, and I've never registered with the state apiary inspection service. Partly laziness, partly the classic worry — why invite an official to find problems in my yard? But a guy at our club swears by it: says the inspector caught early AFB in a neighbouring outfit's yard before it reached anyone else, that registration matters if you ever sell nucs or move hives across state lines, and that the inspection itself was basically a free masterclass from someone who's seen ten thousand hives. So, for anywhere really — US states, BeeBase in the UK, wherever you are: registered or not? Has an official inspection ever actually helped you, or bitten you? Trying to decide before I add two more yards next spring and it becomes a bigger question.