What makes these so lengthy? One example is [Maastricht Treaty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty) (signed in 1992 that forms the basis of today’s European union) which is hundreds, if not thousands of pages long.
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I would imagine a lot of this as to do with the fact that in other legal jurisdictions you will have existing laws, precedent, codes and case law to which you can refer to, UCC in the US for example. This allows you to refer to this structure vs. spelling it out in the agreement itself.
When there isn’t prevailing law, you need to spell everything out.
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