No, I didn't miss that part. I just happen to know what that part applies to, and there is plenty of readily available reform that only needs a normal law to enact that is not being enacted. The obviously broken major... "bug", as per your metaphor, of the Supreme Court being fundamentally broken does not need any of that legacy code, just a functional majority in the legislative. It's not the only example.

The fatalistic notion that the system is fossilized in place and has no room for reform is my point. Sure, there are some fundamental issues that require near-universal control of every state's legislature and that's become incredibly hard politically, but there are also massive issues that don't.

And for the fossilized part, you need to start with educational reform and have a century-long plan to de-lobotomize about half of your population. Because I'm not sure that if you can't hope to reach a widespread consensus you can expect to enforce that reform in any other way, either.