The civil service act has been around a long enough time that no one will accept its upending. It has a good purpose. Leave it alone
I spent 24 years active duty and working around civil service folks and another 15 in the civil service - it's nuts to take 9 months or better to get rid of the dead weight/undesirables that makes the rest look bad. We had one guy that was talking animal sex to students and it took his inept "supervisor" 16 months to complete the process of removing him - despite him having a handful of other "issues".