Remember, when it comes to government — at least a democratic one — the people complaining are also the leadership. Think about it from their perspective:

- If they do a good job with leadership, only one team will be necessary. Anything else is truly a waste.

- If they do a poor job with leadership, every team will fail. Any more than one is also truly a waste[1].

The latter is the most likely outcome, of course. Now, when you absolve yourself from the process then those points still apply, but now you have several leaders duking it out to see which one doesn't fail. But, for the same reasons, those leaders each only benefit from having one team.

[1] You could argue that all teams are truly a waste, but one team is necessary to show that leadership failed. That brings abstract value, even if it fails to deliver the intended value. You don't know until you try.