No, the "so many people" are the rank & file engineers and researchers who are actually applying as inventors on those patents. They don't make the policies, but they are the ones who have to put up with the bullshit. That's what the "collective waste of human creativity" is - hired researcher types who would rather be, well, researching rather than doing a song-and-dance of describing their inventions in legal terms that will make it past a patent examiner but don't actually work once communicated in those terms, all so their employer can put up legal minefields in the dance of mutually assured destruction.
