Ok, I will jump into this crap for one post as a recently retired Fed. The federal workforce will take decades if ever to recover from the last two years. While dedicated, hard working employees remain to fulfill their agency's respective missions as best they can, the number of us that retired or left has wiped out institutional knowledge, expertise, chains of command, infrastructure, and succession plans. Budget cuts also inhibit technology upgrades that could make up for the lack of human resources. It is a mess!!!! People are doing the best they can. If you don't like things, write your respective Congressional delegations and vote this fall.
This post can be moved to banter or deleted when the others are as well but don't disparage the few remaining feds trying to keep things going....