Anything that is stable, systematic and progressive can be measured and monitored which results in most simple persons being able to understand what's going on.
If things are that transparent the parlimentarians will have a difficult time to survive.
Now they can get away with anything or failures as it cannot be blamed on them directly. There are thousands of variables and complexities that could be used as excuses.
So that's the real situation.
Don't keep it that simple!
Have some chaos from time to time and divert the people's attention from the main issues at hand!