Yeah the dumb practice seems rather feudalistic effectively in trying to dragoon "guilds" of entities they can deal with in domains with raised barriers to entr

Yeah the dumb practice seems rather feudalistic effectively in trying to dragoon "guilds" of entities they can deal with in domains with raised barriers to entry for the sake of their ease of administration and grip on power. One of the few good things to say is that Germany's case doesn't seem to be an attempt to try to bypass its own internal restrictions at least. But that bar should be so low that it is buried.