“Regulators” (i.e., unelected bureaucrats) become “alarmed” whenever their power and authority to boss others around is threatened. Power over others is most often the primary — if not the sole — reason for their existence.
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984