[runako]

I didn't look at it that way, but there is unfortunately a bit of truth in that analysis. Such is life in a captured state.

Honestly, I wasn't being quite that cynical. Just pointing out that there are actors who have business interests in applying a worse architecture.

But IIRC this was made manifest in Alabama, where a tech company lobbied for their age law and then captured the sole source contract for doing the verification.