From my layperson perspective that sounds relatively easy to address. For example they could require some minimum distance of continuous bike lanes to get approved for funding.
Decades of this sorts of "aha I know what rule change will fix this" are exactly how we got here though. They all look reasonable in isolation but at the systemic level we get garbage.
I sure wish it would be. I'd love to be able to have bike paths as sensical as interstates.