this reminds me of the thought that a country run by scientists and engineers should be better. but there's none, and i think this can easily be understood by Daniel Kahneman's fast/slow thinking.

in other words, government is time-constrained, so when a problem is sufficiently complex, there's just not enough time to really flesh out a good solution.

also, humans can be selfish and will occasionally try to game the system, which changes your problem into an active adversary. and when you have active adversaries, you're playing a completely different game (indeed, when designing the policy in the first place you may not have even considered it a game with opponents!).