I definitely agree that having a simplified legal code is a good thing. What I don’t agree with is the idea that you should just slash away at it with a machet

I definitely agree that having a simplified legal code is a good thing. What I don’t agree with is the idea that you should just slash away at it with a machete rather than cut away with a scalpel. Making changes to laws is extremely politically fraught and challenging, the real world is messy, and we need laws. For as much flak as people like to give our political system, America has succeeded for having fairly effective and good government, not in spite of it.