I worry that said lawmen are going to be more bueracratic and even less safety. Moving slowly isn't going to cut it unlike structural engineering. The metaphor breaks down because the architect isn't responsible if people use sound dampered sledge hammers and saws in the middle of the night on vital support beams. The software engineer is.

Especially given the origin cultures of regulators think that just banning Cryptography is a remotely reasonable idea instead of barking mad.

Standards may make some sense but they should be deliberately open ended like "encrypt customer data sufficiently or don't gather it" not "use single DES to encrypt - if you use large key RSA you will be in deep shit in spite of it being better".