Well, been a while since *that* happened...

[Labster]

It might have the least-worst form of government imagineable, but it has
one of the worst implementations of it. It's like a pre-Alpha test of a
future software application that somehow found its way into production
use with the intention to fix it up later with patches (Amendments)- and
nobody ever bothered. It was built with great and right ideas, but
immediately undermined when it came to the execution.

Sadly, you just described my job.  Software, not government.
-- ∇×V