Thinking about how the problem would "elegantly solve itself" seems to illustrate the issue.

Someone using it in an actual courtroom would make a boneheadedly dumb argument or refer to a nonexistent precedent or something. Then maybe the judge gets upset and gives them the harshest punishment or contempt of court or they just lose the case. They may or may not ever get a chance to fix it.

A failure mode of jail time and/or massive fines for your customers doesn't sound all that elegant to me. This isn't a thing to show people cat pictures, I don't think move fast and break things is a good strategy.

Not to say that there aren't some entrenched possibly corrupt and self-serving interests here. But that doesn't mean they don't have a point.