I respect your opinion on this.
I would respond that any view of the system that posits that it favors the victim of crime (prosecution) is delegitimized when the person guilty of the crime goes free, possibly to commit more offenses.
I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of victims that would take issue with your description of what they have to go through as "inconveniences." A lot of their "sentences" imposed on them by the guilty party last a lifetime.
Like I said, perspectives are influenced by where you stand and where your sympathies lie.
No doubt there a balance among several competing interest, but IMO, the trend of trying to perform that balance from the victimโs* perspective is a very large part of the problem.
The idea of a criminal legal system isnโt to make the victim whole or fill some void in them. There are other processes for attempting to approximate that.
The purpose is to serve the communal interests of deterring crime, reforming criminals, protecting the public, maintaining credibility etc. So when you correctly frame the structure of the system from that perspective, both sides have an interest in โfavoringโ the defendant to maintain the credibility and integrity of the government. (See e.g. CCP).
The reason is that the victim cannot be made whole. The victim who seeks to fill the void is insatiable. This is why the system should be viewed as a community function, not a service to victims.
Unfortunately, that type of dispassionate logic doesnโt win elections, and weโve had enough generations of politicians running on the passions aroused by the systemโs inability to quench the pangs of victimhood that I think society has legitimately gotten to the point where Iโm wrong and youโre right, at least in terms of the values in which our system is now rooted.
* - FWIW, I agree with your point about perspectives and itโs definitely still valid even though Iโm taking issue with what I think is more of a causal detail than a central pillar of what youโre saying.