Exactly! Legislation is an extremely noisy process. On a side note, I guess there is also some security against "retrospectively irrational" decision making in that noise as well..

I wonder though if there is any research made on such "externalised legislational costs". I believe it would be an interesting subject!

Also a fun fact: a large part of the corpus of modern coomercial law arised "organically" from old fragmented europe using derivated roman law in its interactions.

P.s sorry for lot of these " "