But does everything need study on how it’ll affect minority groups?
Yes. Full stop, yes. I don't know how to explain to you that we are not post-racial, we are not post-homophobia, we are the furthest thing possible from post-transphobic, etc. If you cannot muster enough humanity to protect your community, at least protect yourself. People can and will weaponize the administration of even the best intentions to hurt their neighbours. You fall in to a minority category to someone, and the target is going to fall on you for the next group to "Sacrifice for stability" at some point. Everyone is happy to see someone else thrown into the volcano, right up until it's their own children being fed to the flames. Stop it. Please think this all the way through.
We consult, because we know damn well who it's going to be weaponized against first and no one is better than anticipating how than the people on the receiving end of the past 250 years of bigotry. What you are suggesting is purposefully closing your eyes and running blind at the problem, and ignoring the fact we can see you trampling people to get to where you're trying to go. That's not going to fix the biggest problem in the American system which is no one can trust anyone. Ever. You are literally self-sabotaging your own objectives by suggesting it.
You want to speed up the process, you do that by creating real consequences for people who try to weaponize the process. You want to keep people from going all NIMBY at a consultation, I promise that if you start dropping $100k fines on people for every time they misrepresent the facts in a town hall (and a couple orders of magnitude higher for the politicians and 10% of gross revenue for every corporation), you're going to get a lot fewer people running their mouths if they're going to lose their house if we can prove they're full of shit. There's a fucking reason "THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS" is one of the big 10. It's about time we start treating it with the same degree of seriousness.