All true, but I think a good measure of &quot;brokenness&quot; of a regulatory apparatus is the extent to which you <i>need</i> someone on the inside in order to understand what you need to do to get approval, as opposed to being able to find that information from easily discoverable documents as an outsider.<p>So yes, humans are fallible, but the extent of this reliance on &quot;knowing the right people&quot; is the <i>extent</i> of the fallibility.