The lawyers managers, and the pen pushers love it......legislate legsilate legislate to make us more safe and keep responsibility as far away from them as possible.
The important practical life saving killer stuff gets drowned in the minutiae created by people who have never sat in a cockpit, let alone sat in a malfunctioning cockpit in a storm at night in the middle of an ocean.
We have thousands of pages of Legislation regulation and AIP, thousands of pages of Ops Manuals thousands of pages of AFMs. Concentrating on the minutiae is becoming special too and self perpetuating in Australia.
The minutiae is also tearing us apart - the regulator v the operators v the crew v ATC (yeah - Australia is the only place worldwide that a lot of overseas crew I have flown with have made the comment that ATC just seem to hate us) v the infrastructure.
When operating in the USA there is a different feeling to aviation - it is a thriving valued service industry, everyone (at least ATC and the crew) are part of the same team and progressive, the rules are simple and well written and the go to document is the singular FAR AIM.
There are more runways and airliners in the terminal areas at just DFW and JFK than there are capital city runways and airliners airborne in Australia. And they have another 50 odd major capital cities.
Why re-invent and propogate the minutiea here - look to the FAA they are doing it safely and practically on a massive scale.