wrote

But in the "real world", that would boil down to a bunch
of appointed experts going into the proverbial smoky back
room and coming up with a bandplan that would have the
force of law in the USA.

"Smoky back room"? Aren't you the evenhanded/non-biased wordsmith now?!?!?
Classic case of "don't confuse me with new ideas that I didn't think of". NIH
in spades.

Guys like you are why Amateur Radio is stuck in the 1940's.