Can't speak to your issue in Austria with over 200 pages. Never encountered that in Germany. Germany has removed Meisterzwang for some areas - so there is that. If people want to regulate certain things they can, even if you don't like it - welcome to society.

When you look at some old craft products (like an old cathedral, for example) do you think it wrong to admire the craft, skill, and learning that went into it?

I meant subsidies in the broadest way,which for me includes re-zoning. Don't understand why that doesn't allow for what I wrote.