Nobody said that this is what politics *must* focus on. Governance is about high level organization and alignment. This can be about breadth of coordination area/scale. There is no reason why exactly *people* have to be the focus.

It seems to me that the ridiculous amount of focus on people is a bad sign.

For example, manage roads primarily at municipality level, with some minimal alignment for edge cases on higher levels. And manage traffic signs nationally for consistency.

It doesn't need to be about people. That's not politics. That's perversion of power.