In any elaborate rules-based system, people pick and choose the ones they focus on, and exploit them to achieve their goals.(the vice president is the president of the Senate according to the Constitution and the parliamentarian is a job they invented in 1935)
— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) February 26, 2021
The rule isn't "this random guy gets to boss the majority around," so people shouldn't pretend it is.