That may well be the case. I don't have any firsthand knowledge of the process. Do you?

Do you have a strong prior for large bureaucracies, especially at their interfaces with one another, not being sluggish? If so, how do you come by it? If not, whence comes the doubt whose benefit you seem so anxious to give?

My comment is rooted in a general reluctance to make assumptions about things that have empirical or theoretically provable answers, particularly ones that could be obtained without much effort. Some people call it "science."

Oh, well. Shouldn't you be citing me into silence, then? This mere unsupported assertion ill befits a man of science, after all.

Yes, I have lots of knowledge of bureaucracy. Do you have any firsthand knowledge to expect that this one specifically will be entirely unlike any other bureaucracy in existence?