> Give people power and they will use literally every single bit of it and then some

This is going back to slippery slope argument issue.

What makes you think there isn't pushback to create an equilibrium of policies?

Why does it necessarily need to be one-sided, where giving in to one iota entails giving in to the whole enchilada?

Complex systems entail dialogue and pushback across competing incentives and motivations. Yes, each side works on the basis of self-interest, but what is to say that giving one inch necessarily entials giving up entirely, unless the original premise is that one cannot give up anything (i.e., uncompromising by definition). That doesn't seem to scale in any real-world system, only ideal systems.