When trying to simplify a complex [bureaucratic] system, any change that does not result in an obvious quantum of simplification amounts to further complication — or, more concisely, “any attempted simplification short of a quantum change is always a complication.”
how about this: if you want to make something simpler, you have to make it simpler on a big scale.
Now this sounds interesting. Is there any chance of an example of what you mean?