Comment by phatfish

The dysfunction on the corporate side just gets swept under the rug, only in extreme cases does it get brought to the attention of the public.

Governments have to operate in a more open manner (at least those with a reasonable amount of democratic accountability do). So the dysfunction is made public more often, and likely used over decades for political point-scoring.

It's similar to open source development. Everyone moans that open source projects are full of infighting slowing down development compared to closed projects.

Then, as soon as someone comes along and gets shit done like with systemd or the Linux kernel it's the opposite complaint. The doer is now a wannabe dictator ordering everyone about.