I like the plastic tube with sponge headed stick, the reason being you can release the pressure on the queen straight after marking, the queen is isolated, whilst the paint dries.
I have a wooden crown of thorns, but don’t like to leave the queen trapped for too long, so I have eased the pressure off whilst the paint dries, then she smears it over herself against the threaded mesh or workers caught with her try and clean the paint off. You do need to pick the queen up for the tube method, but put on a thin nitrile glove for that, practice on some drones.
I have a one handed queen catcher as well, but find it a bit of a faff.
All three are probably good methods, it’s about how you use them and what suits you.