Bureaucracies are slow and hard to change and hard to innovate in.

But you can also take them for granted!

You don't have to think about them, you know they are there, grinding away, stably.

Incapable of great things, but also less likely to do terrible things.

That allows you to think about other things like innovating in other contexts.

Because we can rely on them, we take them for granted and don't realize how important they are.