Blaming lawyers for laws is like blaming car companies for gridlock, plumbers for leaks, or the mass media for dumbing down society.
Society, people and politicians are responsible for creating laws. Not lawyers. Laws are only created when there is a perceived need, or for the cynical, when a politician can see some political benefit. That benefit being bestowed upon them by voters ie. society.
Human nature is as it always was, and will be.
It's a specific instance of a more general rule: All self-perpetuating systems over time become more complex and parasitical of the wider environment in which they operate. The legal system and all its hangers-on expand in complexity indefinitely, the tax system does the same, parliaments, congresses, executive structures, customs&excise, law enforcement, industrial safety, health schemes, municipal boards, unions, ad infinitum. Cancer is a good analogy, and that extends to either doing something radical about it, or dying.
This tendency is identified in the book 'Collapse of Complex Societies' (Tainter) as ultimately a primary cause, common to most examples of social collapse throughout history. Societies intrinsically have a limit to their man-hour, material and energy resources. But elements of the social infrastructure tend to go parasitic, and demand more resources than are available. Because the people operating as units within those structures can't see the broader picture. They virtually never go "Oh hey, my entire career is a net drain on society, I should quit and learn some useful trade."
Likewise societies on the whole virtually never have facepalm moments, where they realise "Wait, this is stupid. We really should entirely abolish (patents/copyright/income-tax&theIRS/corporations/the entire body of existing law/Congress/the Presidency/etc) peacefully and just start over."
And because they don't do that, all societies ultimately fail(violently), collapse(violently), or have a revolution (violent or ideally not so violent.)
The 'collapse/fail' scenarios happen when the resources required to sustain the hugely bloated parasitical self-interest groups and systems, grow beyond the practically available resources. Inevitably. It's just basic thermodynamics - you can't have what doesn't exist.
Many argue that some nations today are well into the energy & resources deficit zone already, and are just running on momentum, inertia and delusions. Not to mention theft from other nations. Where's all that gold gone anyway, FED?
In the meantime as the parasites grind onwards, you get many trivial examples. Like passive-aggressive letters from lawyers, 'asking' you to do something they have no standing or right to ask. Obviously in the hope that your fear of them will coerce you into compliance.