How many Federal and state mandates are layered throughout this confusing mess?

The beta is a confusing mess with less information and insists on pushing stuff at me that I don't want.

The way visual, audio and written media are all jumbled is just a confusing mess.

Western help for Russia is a confusing mess.

'It's all a confusing mess at the moment,' confessed an executive of one of the companies involved.

The whole past/future thing just made what could have otherwise been a Sonic classic into a confusing mess.

But in a matter of months, the garage was once again a cluttered, confusing mess.

He also called it "a big confusing mess because sometimes you don't know what to do."

They have a hojillion different products, all with minor variations, and the result is a confusing mess.

That sounds like a confusing mess of per device functionality.