Anyone know of a soap scum remover that actually works?

[RocketMan]

It is the classic case of an agency seeking something to do. This is a example of the law of diminishing returns- all the low hanging fruit AKA gross contaminants were either taken care of forty years ago or exported to nimbyland.  They have worked through the mid level and now  are trying to get the last apple on the top limb, regardless of cost-benefit.

And once they get that last apple, they'll make up new crises to resolve in the most expensive way possible.

[230RN]

Used to be "crisis management" meant reducing the negative effects of a crisis.
 
Now it means managing any minor event into a crisis to expand control methods.

 

[tokugawa]

Some of them are such zealots they would destroy the entire GDP of the US to "save one life."
A good illustration of this thinking is the raptor blenders commonly known as wind farms, exempt of course from endangered species protection laws.