I think you have a very good point. I can also see this through my career. Everytime there is some restructuring more power ends up in the hand of administrator

I think you have a very good point. I can also see this through my career. Everytime there is some restructuring more power ends up in the hand of administrators. In particular you can see that systems are generally build to reduce administration workload (because they work regular 9-5) at the cost of more work for academics (because their work hours are not counted) . I am not sure you're correct about the cause though. My theory is it's a side effect of trying to have quantifiable outcomes everywhere, which essentially requires more admin.