"It's about bureaucracy"? No it isn't, it's about Government and their minions not accepting any shred of liability for safety outcomes.
"Bureaucracy" as a system of administration saves us from corruption by and large.
What CASA, Airservices, the ATSB and Department of Infrastructure have done is attempted to build a firewall between the Government and the Governed by passing draconian regulations that purport to produce a safe system for the general public.
"I don't know what more we can do" the Government can piously say after the next aircrash. "We have the strictest safety standards in the world backed up with severe criminal penalties for anyone who breaks the rules" they will say.
It will take at least three large smoking holes, followed by a Royal Commission to give the lie to this.
Meanwhile actual safety performance will continue to degrade.
This latest safety bungle will reduce the number of aerodrome options available to a pilot in need of somewhere to land as well as limit the amount of information available on the remaining aerodromes.
To put that another way; you can't be held responsible for something you don't have to provide. I've noticed this with weather information, no forecaster will give you their opinion of weather at say, Kilmore Gap. Similarly Airservices response to this problem will be to minimise the amount of information presented, less some of it be innaccurate from a legal point of view.
To put that yet another way; Who is going to take responsibility for Marree considering the amount of tourist traffic it gets in a flood year?