How is administrator attrition being addressed?

At least on the English Wikipedia, policy creep seems to have more or less stopped dead in its tracks. There are far fewer policies being created now. That said, there are definitely opportunities to simplify redundancies. But there's a lot of resistance. For example, there were a bunch of people who merged "verifiability" with "no original research" into a simple and clear message: "attribution". But it was overturned by Jimbo. I think that kind of killed any impetus for simplification.