Much of the regulation in a socialist society is driven by PC thought regulation and just plain because I can, power and control fanatics.
Look at the recent Brexit driven mostly by disgust with grind you down EU/socialist regulations - bananas can only have a certain amount of curve and be of certain size and cucumbers must be straight or they cannot be sold anywhere in the EU, and on, and on, and on - culminating with the edict that Britain did not have anything to say about the jihadis and fanatics straight out of the 7th Century flooding into their country.
So the strip and recover every ten years is just because they might find one in a thousand planes with hidden corrosion of the tubing and thus promote safety. The cost be damned. The grind you down and make you miserable be damned. We are in charge and we are smarter than you are so do as you are told and no back talk, or else.
Many of our politicians, more in the liberal/socialist side but also in the conservative side, find this attractive as it validates their feelings of superiority.. The Founders understood this all the way into their bones, thus the Second Amendment.