I note that there are many examples of solutions to problems in legislative circles done in a direct fashion -- I'm not certain this is as much a requirement of

I note that there are many examples of solutions to problems in legislative circles done in a direct fashion -- I'm not certain this is as much a requirement of legislative solution-creation as much as a certain style of decision-making. Well, it's a feature of politics-in-general, not legislating as such. One could probably observe the same dynamics arising semi-spontaneously in any context where a group with a diffuse distribution of influence has to make a collective decision. It's the old "design by committee" problem, just writ very large when we're talking about the US federal government. Very interesting. Is it a bug? Or feature? That's more of a value judgment than I'm prepared to make. I'd call it an inevitability, for decisions made in certain environments.