I agree that doing something just so something is done about it is not a solution and it generally produces a worse outcome. Ultimately I started questioning a

I agree that doing something just so something is done about it is not a solution and it generally produces a worse outcome. Ultimately I started questioning a lot of these rules and discovered in time what I said in the original post: a lot of people need to be forced with (new) rules because they will not think of anybody else or even actively try to workaround the rules. And I'm not forgiving of rule makers: I think they are really bad at what they do, both in how they reach consensus and how they codify it in law, but I understand the general need they fill, so to say.