I feel likewise as it is the sovereign anodyne to imperial power. You can talk and reason with your local city council or county commission, good luck with doing that with the President or even your local US Representative.
Excellent concept and excellent point!
On the other hand.
Localized oppression can be far more personal.
The heyday of subsidiarity was the Middle Ages, where the lord of the Manor often held the rights of Low, Middle and High Justice.
IOW, your judge was very likely to be the guy your dispute was with.
In general, lower and middle class people were always in favor of the King’s justice. He might be distant, but he was also unbiased for that very reason. In fact, the King generally had an incentive to stomp on over-mighty subjects oppressing his less powerful subjects.
Much of the history of the late Middle Ages and early modern periods is of an alliance between the King and the lower and (especially) middle classes.
The USA in the Progressive Era, up to present, has been all about establishing the inverse of subsidiarity.