Yeah ... it's a great system unless you live in a part of the country that is not trying a smart approach; a place where "best ideas" are routinely dismissed as partisan politics.
Is it, though? Run your states the way you want to. Maybe your comrades in Texas prefer a running economy to lives. This is a good thing that you can make that choice.
I don’t see how not having states would change that.
We have a federal government that has the power to take action. Republicans are stopping that from happening and so some states are choosing to fix it for themselves.