Have you ever actually been in a county clerk’s office?
Because it seems pretty clear to me you haven’t the foggiest clue what goes on in there if you could make a comment like that.
Not since the era of bag phones, which were much in evidence in the records room, along with the bank of nickel-a-page copiers over in the corner. It was obvious even then that they were way behind the times. One of the offices I visited had just added IBM 3270 terminals (green screen, character mode) to search the grantor-grantee indexes. The others were still using index cards and sets of index books covering date ranges.
Nowadays, of course, they are mostly online. But the systems are a dog's breakfast. Great variability from county to county.
They still need a major overhaul.