You could be right. I am sure all the bad politics contributed. For example, I wonder what impacts the mandatory covid vaccinations caused on a government entity such as the FDA. My organization had many retirements due to that one mandate alone. We have a large older work force and the savers retired early mainly because their BS Meters went into overdrive and they decided to leave.
Nidan provided a good post with the FDA regulations that I have been trying to read through now....