Making bureaucratic the government form that mixes better isn't a bad idea if the devs wouldn't go so far as to make them all work together better.
Ideally they really should just be additional systems on top of a foundation that don't generally overlap with other government systems and if they do in the minimum amount of mechanics. But the devs are going full steam ahead on these completely isolated government systems so I think it'll be hard to convince them otherwise until it's too much dev work for them to ever even consider. We might already be there honestly.
But I think your post really underlines just how fluid all governments were in this time period (and honestly all time periods). And it also underlines how many realms and parts of the map are poorly represented because they either get completely irrelevant base government types like feudal or tribal or they get a game rule hamfisting a government type built around a very specific historical realm or they get to be the very special realm and have a uniquely isolated government mechanic that makes them play completely differently then everything else.
Soon it'll basically be 10th century france, arguably many tribes, some emirates and sultanates, byzantium, mongols, china, japan?, and maybe some realms in south east asia. And everywhere else will be hamfisted into these government systems generically no matter how little it fits with no special aspects for themselves.
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