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I think those policies were carried out with the express purpose of boiling people's piss. To distract from the fact the Government's other policies have been catastrophic for public services and by extension most people's day-to-day lives.
Immigration is used by pretty much all governments as a distraction. Rarely do any make the case for it (i.e. we need it). New Labour did it (remember the mugs?), Cameron's government did it and this one has picked it up and run with it too. None of them have any interest in making the system 'work' or making the case for it because the former takes away a cast iron excuse for their own failings and the latter puts them in conflict with said wingnut newspaper editors I mentioned earlier.
Would a so-called 'functioning' system take the poison out of the debate? No. Not as long as there are politicians wanting to distract from their own failings and a media more than happy to amplify those distractions.
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Hand on heart, you don't think that the fact that we've spent £x on housing asylum applicants in hotels, barges and attempting to fly them to Rwanda, instead of processing them with the same cost/efficiency as say, under Cameron's government, has any impact?
Based on a sample size of one, the cost boils my piss.