Bureaucracy is one of the super-powers of modern civilization. It keeps the water clean, it keeps the food growing, it makes sure that someone who knows the right people can’t just drive drunk because everyone in a position of power can keep them out of trouble. Having an organized system for things, and then consistently applying it so that problems can be fixed systemically and then the fix can stick in place, is the only way we have billions and billions of people on the planet right now instead of little chaotic scattered settlements.

Like any superpower it creates new problems that it introduces. Some people might say the settlements would be a better idea. But it solves a whole bunch of problems too, and the idea that it’s inherently an evil thing is along the exact same lines as “the servers always run fine, why do we pay an IT department?”