I think what you’re saying is true of modern politics (probably for the last few hundred years in state bureaucracies. I don’t think it’s necessarily true universally though. We seem to think that global politics has explored all the options, they all suck, and now we have to choose between them. But there’s infinite possibilities for how a society can be structured, and it’s fairly likely that there are many that are better them the ones we’ve tried over the last few centuries. The section in Wengrow and Graeber’s The Dawn Of Everything that describes political debate and decision making in Wendat society really hammered that home for me.