Yes, one can come up with justifications and excuses for the status quo, but that does not change the impact of the way the system today works.
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I had no intention to justify. Just trying to reason.
Imbalances between jurisdictions will always exist, creating problems like this one.
Politics is hard.
In order to have systems slowly adapting and gently drifting into new dynamic equilibria, instead of swinging into place with lots of friction and losses after shocks .. politicians would have to put political decisions into place gradually.
But what they often do is impose step functions on the world.
Operating physical/mechanical systems should teach anyone that it has profound benefits to do gradual small changes, see how the system reacts and then adjust.
In law, regulation by step function can easily be done. No physics or inertia to immediately and inevitably punish the person in control, as would be the case when trying to halt your bike instantly.