> if Biden actually cared about it he could issue an executive order

The guy is President, not king. He's supposed to delegate those sorts of policy decisions to experts. Ruling by consensus, not fiat, is a _good thing_. It's like having a change advisory board or code review process vet changes before they get deployed in production.

The bit about performing for votes is a circular argument with no way to refute it. You could say the same thing about any elected official.