I'm not familiar with the states you speak of. But are they worse than the CO reissue process?
Continually hitting refresh for 3 hours, only stopping to identify school buses, stop lights, and cross walks in the captchas that pop up, all while guessing what .75 second window the tag you want will be available. Then the next day you read on some forum that the tag you wanted got sucked up 4 minutes before the whole process was scheduled to begin.
I have no idea if my example is what the OP mean by "interface". Its just what popped in my head while reading this thread.