You are asking me to trust that the people making law now know what they are doing and are slowly moving things in the right direction instead of slowly in the

You are asking me to trust that the people making law now know what they are doing and are slowly moving things in the right direction instead of slowly in the wrong direction, while not contesting the claim that this law does nothing to accomplish its stated goal of reducing the public burden of tax return fraud. US tax law has been dysfunctional and getting worse for decades, to me that says there are issues with how the system is designed and meaningful progress beyond “keeping the lights on” will require restructuring the law and the agency, not adding a new office here and giving taxpayers more notifications there. Those types of measures, as you correctly point out, have to be looked at as part of a larger plan for the organization that meaningfully addresses a problem, not in isolation. Except here we have a collection of measures that doesn’t coherently address a problem, so there is no way left to look at them except in isolation.