So given the conversations on record and quoted in the article about certain treasurers deliberately doing the least effective actions and anticipating the "leg

So given the conversations on record and quoted in the article about certain treasurers deliberately doing the least effective actions and anticipating the "legal" right to claim a property, you're still going to claim that the system is a net positive? I'll bet you make weekly non-trivial transactions in every financial account you don't want seized - "well, you obviously weren't actively using these funds, so they've been collected and the county will make better use of them." It's legalized piracy is what it is.