I agree, but dealing with the government is slow no matter what you do. Seems to be getting worse than better too.
I began a permit for the Nat.Forest Service in the winter and by the time they passed it over a sundry boatload of desks for approval it was summer and the streams had dried up and it was over 100 degrees and awful so I cancelled the permit (But they keep the money as a processing fee.). Process took about 4-5 months and it is absurd. It's like Gail gets the paperwork from you and it sits with her in her outbox, later she hands it to Bob who doesn't know anything and can't make a decision. He bulk mails it to other departments, and they send it to yet other offices where the secretaries have to figure out who to hand it off to, and then some guy emails for more info and the circle resumes. It really is a joke when you follow the trail. No one can make a final decision so the red tape of federal desk jobs to get it done grows, i.e. "We need to hire more people to handle this workload!"
Decades ago your pilots license was signed at the airport by the CFI and mailed via snail-mail to the FAA and you got your license back via snail-mail in 3 weeks. Now with computer testing, email, and sundry agencies and hands for a 107, it takes them 2 months. Ridiculously inefficient.
Fwiw, I'm near a dam that has a slow leak. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was supposed to fix it 7 year ago. Nothing yet, but lots of federal bug checkers examining the place and writing reports along with other federal and state environmental people looking and writing reports too. In the drought it could be fixed easily and quickly, but no. Decades maybe...but I digress.