EASA is full of lawyers and bureaucrats.
It's in both these groups interests and long term survival and growth to make any system impenetrably complex and requiring massive administration. I'd say job well done.
What they don't have is clear identifiable and measurable objectives related to the real-world and against which they retain or loose their jobs. Unlike the rest of us who are subject to their shenanigans.
there's the rub...!