I tend to agree with you about trail camera use on public land. I go back and forth on it though. In MN where I hunt public land and live, there are no trail cameras allowed on public land. I still find a few dozen or so every year, but I also find dozens of tree stands hung illegally too. I feel like it makes it orders of magnitude more difficult to find and successfully harvest a mature buck on public land without a trail camera. Considering the complaints about quality of hunting in MN, I feel like it is probably a good thing they are not allowed.
What I didn't like about the whole Kansas thing, is that their arguments for or against camera use really seemed uneducated. They had experts on the panel but clearly had an agenda and their minds made up from the beginning. I think one could argue that the quality of hunting public land in KS will actually increase. It might also mean more hunting pressure if people are having to do more in-season scouting to find the deer. If you watch a bunch of the hunting youtubers that are out on public all over the country, they almost unanimously mention the importance of cell cams (the exception being Zach from THP). I have spoken with a few of these youtubers who live in or around MN and asked why they pretty much never hunt public in MN and they have said the lack of camera use makes it too difficult to reliably get on bucks.