I do not believe the RFL have an agenda. I do believe they and the refs (mostly) are not competent to run the game and games respectively.
The worst thing that they ever did was go to full time refs. It is such a small pool and as a result they are as well known in RL circles as the players! That is not right.
And of course crucially if they screw up there are no alternatives.
If the RFL wants full time refs it needs to fund a pool of them twice the number needed to ref the games on any weekend. Those not reffing SL have to ref championship games and just like good RL teams pooor refs get dropped and get replaced by the better ones.