Yes. The reasoning is to control people's lives and not make it easy to skirt their tyranny.  That's it. Stop trying to think they are reasoning out things like a reasonable person or a good person.  There is no "well, when we say a   4e13  emal we mean XYZ, so sorry for the misunderstanding"  What they thought was "No Bar without a kitchen will be open if we demand they serve meals." And when meals were served, they realized they had not been precise enough to deter and ruin pubs, because they are stupid. So they need to add more rules post hoc.