I started Trapping 48 years ago. Have been using Conibears where applicable the last 40 years. I caught this super blanket beaver in a 330 set. I use Conibears, leg holds, snares and live traps depending on what I am doing and where. So I know a little about the subject myself.
The video speaks for itself, the trap is sprung and faux animal in the jaws just as it would be if a dog was in the trap. Other than struggling there is nothing more than can be done to demonstrate the tool's effectiveness.
I frankly suspect you used it wrong and were threading it down through the springs as the tool would be used in a normal trap setting operation, vs how he demonstrates it's use on the outside of the spring for swift rescue of a dog. No other real explanation for how something so straight forward could be claimed to be so difficult, and miraculously more simple than an approach which requires threading a zip tie down through the springs and then back through the racket of the zip tie.
Sometimes the pain of trying to be helpful on the internet seems not worth it.
