You're rejecting the idea that we can analyze a specific action/edict of government to see if it makes things worse or better. Such a paradigm guarantees that things can only get worse, as the only successful changes will be ones that enrich some well funded interest (ie corruption / regulatory capture).
> Every complexity the state forces into a transaction
I do not see how publishing a guide of public legal advice is adding complexity, regulatory or otherwise, for either party. If you would like to make a specific argument of how it is, please do so.
> I've never once heard people from California praising their state for making renting better. I've heard the exact opposite many times over.
There are incentives to spread the negative/political messages, whereas the gains from repeating helpful individual-empowering advice are diffuse.
> Every complexity the state forces into a transaction
I do not see how publishing a guide of public legal advice is adding complexity, regulatory or otherwise, for either party. If you would like to make a specific argument of how it is, please do so.
> I've never once heard people from California praising their state for making renting better. I've heard the exact opposite many times over.
There are incentives to spread the negative/political messages, whereas the gains from repeating helpful individual-empowering advice are diffuse.