I think one of the virtues of the article is that you can make a case for the fact that the government must be terribly inefficient at achieving its goals, base

I think one of the virtues of the article is that you can make a case for the fact that the government must be terribly inefficient at achieving its goals, based on evidence from parts of the private sector that have or haven't gone through disruption, without getting into the details of what to change.