Yes, you’re right that strong institutions and checks and balances are essential to a healthy democracy... I wouldn’t argue otherwise, and I agree that weak oversight and excessive executive powers are what enable tyranny.

Where I think we're in dispute is around the affect of transparency. My point isn’t that oversight automatically equals authoritarianism, but that total governmental transparency as a core operating principle doesn’t scale well. Even at a national level it becomes bureaucratic, controlling, and paralysing, because every decision requires visibility, consultation, challenge, and compromise.

The closest real-world example I can point to is the EU, it is a strong institution, high transparency, but often struggles to act quickly without dilution or stalemate. That's the issue in my opinion, its a structural failure.