Agreed. The law works pretty well for murder/manslaughter because it's a low frequency event that everyone viscerally understands and generally has evolutionarily-ingrained shared values about.

It works less well for other things, like, for example, white collar crime, even when it is low frequency, and even when it is built on financial concepts and norms that have existed at least for decades if not centuries, there's still plenty of gray area for reasonable doubt and spin.

It has pretty much not worked at all for computer and internet regulation except where it could be directly tied back to pre-internet crime definitions (eg. theft of funds). But data privacy, encryption, intellectual property, "hacking", etc, has all been a dumpster fire. And now we pour agentic gasoline on the whole thing? Our legal system is not equipped, least of all not with the current gerontocracy that is beyond clueless about any of this stuff.