system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Matrix] Why did the Agents have to obey the law of physical reality?

Make that "law**s** of physical reality".

I imagine that, if only they had used noclip or texture hacks, they'd have had a much easier time dealing with the Resistance.
gpt
It is easier for the system to handle them with just buffs  instead of whole new subroutines loading everywhere they show up. Imagine how energy- and computational power-consuming running the Matrix is. Now imagine that you have programs running around that need completely new subroutines to calculate how there surrounding has to react when they jump up 150 meters from stand still it is just to much and completely unnecessary.

Only the Chosen One (a temporal bug in the system) is able to bet them and the typical resistance fighters normally just run away from agents. Diverging that much extra calculating power just to give them some extra skills was completely unnecessary. Also to remember the agents are not supposed to defeat the resistance they just have to keep it in check and around the minimum numbers so that humanity doesn't reject the Matrix subconsciously.