Slope mode and the wandering reveal

On a 14’ walnut slat wall yesterday, I kept chasing a clean 1/8" shadow reveal around a return, only to realize the laser was in slope mode and the wall wasn’t the only thing out of plumb. Anyone else had a ‘smart’ tool turn a precision install into performance art?

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