Great thoughts, but you invite the question: should techies like the readers of this site attempt to offer a more coherent system?
People seem to scale poorly, and the US government needs reform.
What to do?
People seem to scale poorly, and the US government needs reform.
What to do?
Barring that, I think the current system is definitely better than adding congress to the list of decision makers. In fact, that increases the too many cooks in the kitchen problem even more.
That would be one approach. However, back to my point on the unscalability of people, I'd argue going the other way, and pushing the (arguably scope-creep) functions that the federal government has assigned itself back to the states.