Speaking from the USA perspective here.
The complexity of the understanding natural world increases - even if the world itself is finite - because we have limited intellect and can never know the thing itself. We can (just) iterate on our abstractions from the particulars around us towards truth. But that path in (good) science is (supposed to be) ever pointed towards simplicity
If I want to know the essence of what a cat is, what is “ ‘cat’-ness”, I would like to join my intellect with that thing itself. But that thing is non-physical and I’m limited to knowing the world through my senses. So I’m stuck, trying to look at each particular cat and abstracting from each particular towards each other particular in an effort to find “cat”-ness and define it. But I’m not looking to catalog each particular as “cat”-ness. I’m looking for the essence of what a cat is. Of what makes a cat not a man. I don’t want a list of ever growing particulars of for example 252 million individual cat fur patterns as if that is what makes a cat. That’s cataloging (and more like an AI approach of “intelligence”). That’s important, but it’s only the beginning of the abstraction that leads to understanding. In the end truth is simple, towards a unity. Truly knowing “cat” ness cannot leave out such particulars but must eventually collapse them in towards a unity. Otherwise, in an absurd extrapolation, you can never explain to a six year old what makes a cat different from a man because you wouldn’t have enough time in your lifetime to articulate each particular that’s not how we work because that’s not how truth works, and we are made for truth.
In my experience from my perspective, this is not how administration and law are evolving. There is the collection of particulars, but instead of incentivizing towards the truth – you might call this morality or ethics – the incentives are left accumulating particulars. These particulars are called laws, rules, administrative rules, employee handbooks, all based on abstractions from nature that never return to integrate into the truth. My limited an likely insufficient exposure to goedels theorem suggests one such a system of rules is complex enough it cannot be proven to even be non contradictory. And between laws, administrative decrees, etc we are well past that. Rather than incentives towards simplifying this mess towards morals, the self contradictory nature is dealt with by erratic non enforcement and /or selective application. So the same crime in the same way leads to two different outcomes (say a poor person drunk driving versus a rich person who affords high powered lawyers) which is unnatural and untruthful. But because judges lawyers and politically connected / rich people tend to benefit from incentives within this unnatural result, and because in abstract power systems like governments those people create the incentives, there is seemingly no force to turn the tide.