One argument that intrigued me a while ago against the "reform" of the French State to make it more effective and reactive was that the role of the State was also to introduce slowness, and ponderation into some decisions, and thus inefficiency was not necessarily a bad thing.

There is also a series of short novels by Frank Herbert where the hero comes from the Sabotage Bureau (or something) which was created to fight the super efficient bureaucracy made possible by a special kind a aliens, by sabotaging it and making it work slower. It sounds strange, but there is, as always with Herbert, some very interesting background and thought involved.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes