Why is the DMV so terrible?

I’ll add another nitpick. States that stupidly use the same color scheme on their registration stickers year after year. Before NY went to window decals, the sticker on the plate was a different color scheme every year. It allowed law enforcement to spot unregistered vehicles at a casual glance (if the color scheme wasn’t current or the previous years, since at any given time 2 colors could be valid). In Maryland it’s the same black on white sticker. Oh, but we have two different “month” sticker colors, as if that’s useful.