The article isn’t as hyperbolic as you’re suggesting it is. It admits that there are cases where the benefits of solving the problem outweigh sustaining it. The existence of a generalizable pattern does not imply the wold reduces solely to the pattern. It is not conservative to say institutions try to preserve themselves nor to suggest that government institutions, systems, and entities are equally susceptible to the plight of preservation, even inadvertently. Traditional conservatives are allergic to change and the conservative mindset may be at fault for institutions behaving conservatively… but we won’t have that discussion if you write off a rather wise observation as politicized anti-government propaganda.