Agreed. The problem for me isn't "who holds the power" it's "what can you do about it if they fuck up." Right now the answer is "grin and bear it, and hope the next guy is better" or even more ridiculously "spend the rest of your life working your way up the political system and somehow amass millions of dollars in bribes so you can take over personally."
The whole thing is completely unwieldy and unresponsive to consumer demand. It should be as simple as sending in a notice informing the government that you no longer require their services and you're signing up with someone else. If you could do that, then so many wars would be averted, Hitler would never have had to "invade" Germany, Germany would simply have united of it's own accord. And if some superelite portions of New York descend down the path of cultural marxism and wanting to flood their country with refugees, they'll pretty quickly find themselves quarantined.