I was lurker in GBATemp for many years before joined here and I was 14 years old when GBATemp launched, and I played GBA a lot, along with PS2 and GameCube.
The problem with X party blocked X bill that would have prevented X is that yes the bill probably would have worked great, buuuttt they put XYZDCBG in said bill as an attempt to sneak things in that tend to be completely unrelated to the original bills intent. It sucks because if they would just do a single thing they could probably get something done...