another pick up bids instead of pass

[barmar]

But the morass of unclear, complex, fragmented, laws, regulations, minutes and COC are a turn-off.

I doubt they have much of an impact on the popularity of the game. Problems due to the types of issues we debate here come up very rarely. Players who are on the fence probably don't play enough to run into them very much, so there's little opportunity for them to be turned off by them. The players who encounter them enough to be annoyed by them are mostly addicted to the game, so it will take more than a few confusing laws to drive them away.

 

Bridge's decline is much more due to general cultural issues than arcana about the rules of the game.