I think people need to remember that all institutions, formal or not, are essentially levers for power. That's what they are for, and it's extremely useful. It's the only way we can have societies with thousands of people in them, rather than tribes of 100.
But they are also dangerous because they can allow small groups immense control and power of many other people. The history of the British form of government is really a long lesson in creating integrated institutions that are effective but circumscribed to protect against abuse.
I think one of the effects in the 20th century of human rights formulations, and what we might call the "progressive" political position, has created all kinds of new institutions without adequate protections. If people remember back when Yaniv was harassing those women, he was using the human rights tribunals to do this.
There are people, a lot of them, who seem completely unable to conceive that people might use these "good" institutions for their own ends. You see a similar thing on threads about disability or accomodation or mental illness, where substantial numbers seem oblivious to the possibility that there could potentially be fairly widespread abuses.
People who want power use whatever the institutions are, replacing old ones with new ones does not somehow mean they are now purified. Often they are actually more vulnerable.