If an individual were heading to a hospital's operating theater for surgery, it would be troubling to that individual to understand that the people who approved the surgical procedures had no experience in medicine. Imagine if the folks regulating this operation were two lawyers, a termed-out politician, a retired police officer, and a longtime contributor to the governor.
So, too, those who drive across a bridge on the way to work would hope that the people responsible for the rules by which that bridge was designed, constructed, and maintained would have had some professional training and credentials in the world of bridge building.
The good news is that the people who oversee our surgeries, our bridges, and the myriad other things that affect our lives are generally experienced, competent, and know what they are doing.
Yet, in gaming, the higher-level people overseeing the industry often do not have a hint at how any of it works — and we wonder why regulation is such a hot mess of different policies and practices as we traverse the United States.