“because they can.”
Because they have FAR too many people in government making work for themselves to justify their jobs. If the government were half its current size, nobody would have time to even dream up something like this.
In the fed/gov they're called "change agents". They take policies and procedures that have worked well for decades and apply the new magic thinking they learned in collage.
The ensuing carnage and poor agency performance is recognized and rewarded and the "change agent" then goes on to do more damage elsewhere. Change agents are defined by their basic lack of agency knowledge, history and operational experience.
They want to change things they don't even understand.