It’s more illustrative of their mindset of their “superior discretion”.
“Oh, yeah, this policy causes a problem with group X, we’ll just make a discretionary allowance or waiver for that group and everything else will be fine.”
The “Chess Piece fallacy” derives from Adam Smith’s description of the person who “seems to imagine that he can arrange the members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces on a chess-board.”
Worse: it’s a sign of emerging dictatorship.
Law doesn’t work in his favor? “waiver”.