I don’t know if you watched the Q&A session with Eric the other day, but he addressed this.
He stated that government needed to be much smaller.
I agree with your take on this, and I think the Trumps are aware of it too.
This is why I’m holding out hope for trump. Running an effective and profitable organization is all about weeding out the deadwood. And this is precisely what Trump has done, mostly successfully and on a scale that few businessmen ever see. the majority of the bankruptcies that the opposition media uses to bash Trump have been Trump engineered brushfires designed to do just that: purge the ranks of the lazy and incompetent.
I’ve run into too many of these types in my own career - the “protected” ones who are allowed to persist long after their usefulness (if they ever had it) has passed. They usually ruin things, sometimes in expensive and demoralizing ways.