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Or it suggests that we already have examples of such things going horribly wrong.

It wouldn't be the first time something, whether formal or informal, supposedly established in order to help some identified group ended up hanging around too long and in doing so ended up doing more harm than good.

A classic example is workplace disputes involving unions. Starts out OK but once it's resolved the union rep doesn't want to go back to doing their actual job and keeps trying to find new "issues" requiring their attention and thus avoidance of their real job. I've seen that one play out and it ends with the management and workers both on the same side wanting to be rid of that individual. They've gone from representing the workers to being loathed by the very same workers because they didn't stop when they should have.

There's quite a few examples of that in politics and government, especially toward the activist end of the spectrum. People who started out progressive, kept going too long and ended up at best conservative, at worst regressive, as a result.