TBF, when my former partner explained the system to me, it did feel like a lot of the complexity was inherent to the problem of what the EU as a project is tryi

TBF, when my former partner explained the system to me, it did feel like a lot of the complexity was inherent to the problem of what the EU as a project is trying to achieve. It is not a trivial problem to solve. Another issue is basically the legal analogy of how certain difficult programming languages impose a selection bias on who actually is willing to learn it, which then leads to an echo-chamber culture where most people underestimate the issues with the programming language.