Politicians set up regulatory agencies. Once established, those agencies have dictatorial powers which are virtually impossible to hold accountable. That power needs checks on it. The sclerotic FAA needs to be totally revamped to include actual inputs and voting powers by stakeholders. Which stakeholders?
How about GA, manufacturers, airlines and the FAA itself? The FAA could have power of rule making, unless overridden by unanimity of the others. The rule making would have input from the stakeholders. This is just a possible reform, possibly other was exist to streamline and prevent absurdities like we are having with the FAA. The present LODA situation is absurd and unacceptable.