[badlibrarian]

I do not share your pessimism. And you do not seem to understand the nuances of a representative democracy as it pertains to the Executive branch.

Please report back when the transition from the 11th Archivist to the 12th Archivist causes any data or paper loss.

https://www.archives.gov/about/history/archivists

I trust these folks far more than the "not affiliated with archive.org" Archive Team and their wget scripts that somehow jam data via backdoor into the web.archive.org database.

https://www.archives.gov/about/organization/senior-staff

If someone pulls nonsense at archives.gov, whistles will be blown and the press will respond. When nonsense goes on at archive.org, I see hagiographies, third party apologists, and people who lack the qualifications to get a job filing paper in a University library mismanaging simple archival projects.