alt Hacker NewsNearly everything you listed is designed to prevent your decisions, or changes to your property that haven't been identified yet, from harming you or people around you.
Removing a requirement might just leave someone else paying a much higher price, potentially with their property, their clean water, or even their life.
To be clear, the utility of these processes can be good - but it also gets perverted into weaponization. Local municipalities frequently deploy these regulations arbitrarily as a feature, not a bug, creating systemic friction to artificially create "jobs", drive up development costs, and suppress development.