Warp speed is the work of career guys. Not even Fauchi -- he was important, but these ideas are put together, presented, and executed by the unknown 9-to-5ers.
We call this the Deep State
The truth is that any government needs a ton of people to operate properly and you can't change all of them upon election.
Actually, scratch that, you can sort of do that every election/change of government.
Do you know where they do that? Failed states. Failed states change most if not all the government employees upon regime change, to put people from the new regime in their place.
It's an unmitigated disaster, because you also need people other than politicians to do the heavy lifting. And those skills can't always be built up over just 4 years, you need more than that. It's dumb to throw them away. Let alone the fact that changing them with the regime means that it's super unlikely you keep the competent people, you just get new loyal folks.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing (for the reasons you describe) but there's a fundamental deceit going on if the president can't actually control that bureaucracy (because people assume that he can).
If by “we” you mean fans of the arbitrary, irresponsible, corrupt patronage-based governance of the spoils system who use the term to denigrate the idea of a professional civil service with loyalty that extends beyond the person of the current chief executive on whom their tenure depends, then, sure, “we” do.