Very true. The thing is that for each one of these 500 projects, the project leader, the people working on it and the guy who is pushing it in the senior levels

Very true. The thing is that for each one of these 500 projects, the project leader, the people working on it and the guy who is pushing it in the senior levels of government will all endlessly tell you that it is THE THING that will improve the life of the citizens. I don't think that it is avoidable though, if out of the 500 projects you cut out 475 of them and then work on the remaining 25 and really make something cool out of them then, then the people running the 25 projects will get a lot of credit and promotions, which will anger the people whose projects got cut. Pretty sure they would all rather suffer from mediocrity together.