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It just takes management with a spine. I work in the public sector, it absolutely can be done.

My guess, it's partially the softwares fault and partially the organization for trying to force a particularly bad workflow on bad software. It's probably fixable without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but it takes someone willing to go dig in and figure it out. Those people can be hard to find in any organization, and doubly so in public sector organizations.