because the staff has a stellar record of getting regular requests done in a timely manner, let alone voting on mounds of mundane shit handled by player governments
get ready for 3 month waits on your requests kids
EDIT this is especially dumb considering how extremely scarce official factions are in houses now. libgov has thirteen (13!) people who handle votes, where if you dumb it down to official factions only, it'll become 3? 4? people.