This is the failure mode of bureaucratic government. The personality type of bureaucrats means that the rules will proliferate endlessly. Karens never sleep. Eventually the rules get so onerous that it becomes impossible to comply and everybody operates in violation of the rules. Everybody know that actual enforcement of the rules would be catastrophic, so they noncompliance is ignored. The economy reverts to the same unregulated and "unfair" state that the ruling Karens feared in the first place, but arbitrary enforcement continues anyway as the bureaucrats need to justify their existence by continually enforcing the rules. The number one rule of business becomes "keep your head down" because anything that attracts the attention of the bureaucrats will be immediately enforced, while the other 99% of violators are allowed to peacefully continue violating. Stagnation and slow decay takes hold as any sort of disruptive innovation is instantly shut down.
The "true" failure mode is bureaucrats discovering they can collect bribes from 99% of businesses to not enforce the rules, since nobody notices noncompliance and enforcement is expectedly arbitrary.
When I am dictatorKing, I will make the first line of the constitution (which won't matter because I'm dictatorKing (yes, the camelCase is important (yes I'm nesting parentheses))) be that a mandatory and invulnerable defense against any crime, claim, or tort is that the law is not enforced regularly.
How does that work for something like speeding, where they will charge you with everything, then let you off with a different infraction that doesn't actually have anything to do with the laws you supposedly broke.
They do that enough times, and all of a sudden now speeding is legal because no one was charged with speeding, but with "driving with an invalid instrument".
This would basically get rid of the "easy plea downs" and basically make fighting against the book the norm.
IRL example:
I once pulled out of my driveway and passed a stopped school bus (with lights on, but no stop signs extended) on a divided highway (barrier between my side of the road and theirs), a cop saw me do that, went around the barrier and pulled me over a couple minutes later. I was charged with something that was going to instantly take my license away.
I went to my local courthouse on the designated day, the prosecuter brought me in and told me he would drop the charges to failure to stop at a stop sign. I said I didn't pass a stop sign, and that the bus didn't have them extended, just stopped with lights on, across a highway from me.
Prosecutor said, that I'm allowed to argue that in front of a judge along with paying some large sum, and potentially lose my license, or take a point, and pay $150 today and be done with it.
