There is such a thing as too much transparency in government. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/the-case-for-corruption/357568/ https://www.

There is such a thing as too much transparency in government. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/the-case-for-corruption/357568/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/the-cas... TL;DR: It's hard to build consensus out in the open. Consensus requires the ability to apply positive and negative pressure to get followers to agree to things that are in the general interest but aren't in their interests. Radical transparency cuts down on the levers to build that consensus and makes it harder to pass budgets and other necessary laws.