Agreed, it could be much better worldwide. I'm a layperson certainly, but my understanding is that a lot of legal systems were/are intended in principle to be

Agreed, it could be much better worldwide. I'm a layperson certainly, but my understanding is that a lot of legal systems were/are intended in principle to be structured so that they are open to the public (in terms of access) so that they gain credibility and support from the communities they serve, and so that injustices can be debated and corrected. Regardless of what tech companies themselves aim to achieve, I think that software engineers on the ground tend to believe that making languages easier to understand, making codebases clearer and simpler, providing better tools to access and subscribe to changes and releases, and automatically spot problems (like the integrity issue you mention) are all beneficial. I believe we'll see more of those types of practices and abilities filter their way into legal systems; it could be disruptive and it shouldn't be done too quickly so as to avoid Chesterton's Fence[1]-type issues, but the upsides are clear and the blockers may largely be related to inertia. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence