I remember discussing this with at least one developer at some point. It should be doable in a way that doesn't hardcode the English Wikipedia's policies - or so I'm told. I wasn't convinced - I think people are so used to the policies that they don't realise when they are assuming them.
If you mean that people are so entrenched in bureaucracy that they miss the big picture, I'll agree with you on this point.
No, that's not what I mean at all. People were talking about how to automate the deletion process and were coming up with methods that would require people to do their deletions in the same (or similar) ways as the English Wikipedia. People didn't realise that they were implicitly assuming that deletions would be taking place according to enwiki policy.