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> she has displayed a familiarity with Government before and was the type of pony who seeked out knowledge on the most mundane to advanced things on a subject
she would have probably heard about something during the periods as a princess in Canterlot.  She studies everything before doing anything. Twilight doesn´t know how to improvise orat least, not her strongest aspect for such confidence in their regulations.

> you'd think there would be "time for the EEA inspection" EEA approved stamps or something of the short she had to have seen.
Or probably like I heard somewhere in /mlp/, maybe it´s recommended to get the approval in order to have recognition and official image, as a certificate to porve that it´s approved by their standards. 
When you want to have a laboratory or industry, you can have it. However, you have to pass some tests during certain periods of time in order to check the quality of your products. It´s NOT mandatory but it´s absolutely recommended and highly encouraged just for receiving good publicity, an image of guaranteed quality and some external help for contributing and making an effort for keeping your products safe by health measures. If you don´t have it, your lab/industry can exist but your image and security standards wouldn´t gain the trust of many potential customers because they want the products already tested and approved before consuming them.
This is what more or less,applying this analogy to the EEA what I can get from it.

> he could have been cooler as a consistent political enemy. 
we have yet to see his background context or motifs. We only know that he almost fucked it up.

> Equestria itself is not fully untamed either at least it used to be Monsters in the everfree.
Everfree has ended up as big forest.Maybe the highly menacing image from it was because ponies hadn´t had the courage to visit it a lot of times like the mane 6 and exxagerated its a image by a mile.
Again, going to the Castle of the Two Sisters alone or to Zecora house without blinking is basically pissingly easy. Instead of being friendly, it´s just a wild place that has genuinely dark places but those aren´t so random as they have feared(the swamp fever lake, the dragon hidden in a cavein season 1, the Diamond dogs or the furby creatures. They are kind of predictable and located, but when you have visited it so many times, you stop caring. 

> that long range transport wasn't that well developed do to us use to seeig them only walking on hoof or on train for at least a day and night, but with all the outings recently to other counires and far off lands in a single ep
 Train transport is the shit in Equestria and t´it´s a shame that they had to do like Majora´s Mask with the owls,until you don´t active them, no teleport. Here it´s the same, once you visit a new area,bam train station for whenever you want to use it. New place, new accesible route for all the family. Not sure if they have established one with Griffonstone, the Changeling hive or the Badlands but I will tell you(very light spoilers)that they visit Mount Aris with a train. It seems pretty far from Ponyville but they visit it like nothing in comparison to the movie.
> Cartoon Logic 
Of course darling.