FFS... Why is it any wonder that the standard answer to Q How can you improve the World is a good start would be 400 Lawyers at the bottom of a Lake!?

Life was pretty simple really!

You got up in the morning, if the Sabre Tooth or Bear had found someone/something else to eat, foraged for the remains of their meal, scratched about for some nuts or roots and, if you were really lucky, found another E..Rec..tus, preferably with different equipment, and set about improving the gene pool.

With the Advent of Law, behaviour was modified by a series of "Laws", written by wise, privileged, influential people designed to maintain an order that ensured the position and expanded that influence whilst suitable Bullies and Servant wise, privileged, influentials oversaw a Gang of "Authorised Thugs" who were instated to maintain this natural order.

To avoid being locked up or belted with batons, social conflict inherited an organisation and was called Sport. Since the practice of making Illegals wrestle Lions, Crocodiles etc. whilst the moronic clapped and paid to watch, became unacceptable, the rules, and the forms of Sport have evolved into something quite complex and mostly devoid of fatalities etc.
 
So now it's the Octogon for some, and the Long Lunch for others as the Arena goes Global, and the Influential grow fatter, more powerful but continue to tweak the Games for Bigger Market Share and Bonuses. What better way to trot out some Press about the "Game" than to hang some "Brain Far...ter" out to dry publicly.

I think rules should remain pretty simple really. Clubs like Carlton and North Melbourne etc. have abused the system to overturn suspensions or, avoid suspensions, leading to this overcomplex rubbish that, for the Influentials, provides an easy, free Advertisement about the "Game!"