>They're lawyers, not engineers, and I don't see any reason for lawyers to conclude "It's fundamentally complex, impossible to get right, and going to have problems"

Very true, my brother who, is the press secretary for a relatively prominent senator, said to me when we were debating the health care bill, "Complex problems have complex solutions." and then... "Getting to the moon was a complex problem, and I'm sure it took lot more than 2000 pages to explain the process of getting there."