Except this kind of work spawned a nation of clerks and it has lasted a thousand years. Everybody has to think about the King's values, and implement them in their own little corner of the kingdom.
If Joe Biden changes his heraldry, it doesn't change my post office experience one whit.
Chain-of-command portraits serve a practical, if minor, function; yes, more of them change when a chief executive changes than anyone else, but they also change when a batallion commander or civilian agency director changes, for the same reason as for a chief executive.
Heraldry of the monarch also serve a function, I suppose, but it is less like a chain of command photograph and more like the US national coat of arms (or the Great Seal, which has the former on the obverse); neither of which has changed substantially (there have been some rendering tweaks) since adopted by the Congress under the Articles of Confederation in 1782.
And that function is that (for example) on a big Navy ship with thousands of sailors, the "lower ranks" might never have laid eyes on the commanding officer ("CO") or executive officer ("XO") but need to recognize him/her if s/he shows up unannounced and alone in a workspace — following the old nuclear-Navy rule that "you get what you INspect, not what you EXpect."
(I agree with your overall point though. There were speaker towers arranged at intervals down the mall and plenty of crowd control involved in getting people to and from the event in the first place, none of which had to have been cheap.)
One corporate rebranding every quarter century is really cheap, by modern standards.
When you see the branding story for, say, Google or Pepsi, that looks like money flushed straight down the toilet.
Now let's just hope Australia follows suit...by eliminating the crown entirely from government.
Bonus: you also get confused foreigners who think "6/12/20" is 6 Dec 2020 or even 12 June 2020, instead of 20 Dec 2024 (Reiwa 6). Fortunately the Japanese themselves are ISO-compliant and always use YYMMDD.
For example - this silly little exercise. And his request that there should be portraits of him in school and public offices.
This will have been filtered through courtiers saying "I'm really not convinced that's a good idea, your majesty." So these public proofs of his kingness seems very important to him.
Meanwhile much of the country is starving or in debt, shops and businesses are closing, and infrastructure is crumbling.
It's not a good look.
Not entirely sure what he is meant to do.
I am a committed republican but as far as Kings in a constitutional monarchy can go he’s been pretty demonstrative against government policy.
And reflecting that cypher in the gov.uk branding was not Charles's choice.
Tiny in comparison, but don't government offices feature a portrait of the president in the entryway?
And in basic training or the initial parts of officer training, one of the things people can be inspected on is having the names of everyone on that chain memorized. Not because that's something most military people routinely do, just to drive the point home of lawful orders and civilian control.