Sunfish,
I do not disagree with you at all. Even though the 'rule' for drafting anything that may be used in court is that the wording has 'legal certainty', it does not mean that it should be impossible to discover the 'legal' way of doing things or comprehending an AMC without legal training.
If you really want a challenge, try using the NZ regs to certify an 'Asian' built aircraft operated by and registered in a Pacific island nation.
I thought it was going well until this Kiwi guy handed me the 1200 page NZ 'offence' regs!!
NZ regs? If you really want to see technical difficulties, look no further.
Needless to say, we went another way.