> but sometimes, "red tape" exists for a reason. Pretty much always. And a lot of the time, the reason (if not the implementation) was pretty good. But these

> but sometimes, "red tape" exists for a reason. Pretty much always. And a lot of the time, the reason (if not the implementation) was pretty good. But these things almost always grow, and interact, and are very hard to update with changing times. SO you get a mess, and you get friction, but mostly as you note, the friction is viewed as a brake on other undesirable outcomes. So people learn to work with it. I guess there aren't enough incentives for people to clean up/optimize it until well past when it becomes an obvious problem.,,