Re your edit: It's probably not just theater. It's probably a good faith effort to fix a problem that's poorly understood using the tools available in a situati

Re your edit: It's probably not just theater. It's probably a good faith effort to fix a problem that's poorly understood using the tools available in a situation where it's very challenging to try get a real solution implemented. But in practice that makes it not much better than theater. If it simply doesn't work, it makes little difference if they genuinely meant well or were consciously going through the motions to "look good" without having to deliver real results.