I hate this sort of surface level analysis. Why do we need experts? Because the bureaucracy demands it. One should, in a novel situation, be able to just get

I hate this sort of surface level analysis. Why do we need experts? Because the bureaucracy demands it. One should, in a novel situation, be able to just get a local university professor with relevant experience and an engineer to say "here's how we're gonna build it and in our professional experience we think it'll be fine. Why does the bureaucracy even demand it? Lord f-ing knows if someone tries to sue them over a harm it'll be deflected because "we're government, you can't sue us over that".