Sorry for the question, but was the answer written seriously or as a joke?
Even if there are claims about wasting resources, appointing cronies, and so on, the enactments themselves were accepted by Torah scholars.
Even in the Second Temple period, when high priests were appointed who were totally unfit, I assume we still would have wanted to contribute the half-shekel also for the Yom Kippur service.

I don’t know any great Torah scholars there. Maybe by chance there’s also someone like that there. But there are even greater Torah scholars outside the Rabbinate, and they still have no authority to enact decrees. So certainly this collection of pathetic bureaucrats has no such authority. The fact that the state decided to appoint a few little officials that nobody cares about doesn’t turn them into the public’s rabbis. They’re barely even rabbis of Matah Yehuda.

Maybe in the previous generation, when genuine great Torah authorities sat there,
great figures in the religious camp and even in the Haredi world saw them as an authority,
maybe they even accepted them in some sense,
and especially regarding this enactment, to which there was no
public opposition from rabbis outside the Rabbinate,
maybe that enactment of theirs does carry some weight?