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If you take things seriously it gets done. If you spend thirty years fucking around in courts and with permits it takes thirty years. About 60% of my clients are various governments ranging from federal on every continent to towns that have under a 100 people. A government project takes as long as people want it to take.
Just to give you one tiny example. I had a project in Dubai for what should have been a pretty simple system. We had this project manager between us and the government and I legit think he has an anxiety disorder plus he is someone's nephew and not at all qualified. The result was never ending paperwork. Between me and my coworker we ended up ranking in about 80 or so hours just filling out paperwork for what should have been a system so simple that our permit generation system could have handled it. This is really not an exaggeration. It should have been about fifteen minutes entering values into a python script and ended up being 80 hours.
Want to know how we finished the project? The CEO of the company got furious and sent an email saying that there will be no more paperwork and they could take it as it stood or not.
All it takes is someone running things to say "no" and suddenly problems that are unsolvable become trivial. This event happens about once every two months or so at the corporation I work at.
It sucks that it is like this but honestly no one excepts government to work.
Pretty simple to build a NPP in a dictatorship.
Maybe. As I mentioned with Dubai they can also pretty bad at infrastructure.
Too me at least it is accountability. When the government/people expect things to get done they tend to get done. When everyone accepts corruption and foot dragging you get both.