I’ve been a govie and contractor both and have done private sector work in companies of varying sizes, I get you. I was mostly speaking not necessarily to you but for others that may have certain perceptions of government work that are inaccurate or unfair comparisons. There’s plenty of inane rules in any large enterprise. The difference is that a truly inefficient large enterprise has a non-zero chance of winding down while government agencies themselves rarely start greenfield nor wind down (projects, of course, are stopped all the time).