I don't think anyone is alleging corruption.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity."
Ignorance is the dominant force in this issue, especially amongst those in the legal profession who were systematically taught the wrong lessons from precedent case law.
The only way to understand what is correct it to look at the intention of the legislators, not what some subsequent court opinion was.
Because we know that ignorance and stupidity is never found in legislators?
What you propose is exactly the opposite to how our system has worked for several centuries. We are a common law country.