Well said. I'd complement your point by adding an analogy most of us can relate to: technical debt. When it happens in software systems, it's generally seen as

Well said. I'd complement your point by adding an analogy most of us can relate to: technical debt. When it happens in software systems, it's generally seen as a quirk/unfortunate reality of the system itself. But as an org attempts to build systems around the original one, the tech debt becomes a glaring flaw that slows and complicates everything else. A refactoring is needed. Our political system (US here, but broadly applicable) including all its written and unwritten rules (integrity, cooperation) has always had flaws. We've worked around them in order to get things done and move forward. It's only now that we've built up other, more engineered and integrated, systems that the technical debt is visibly holding us back. Invisible/ignored tech debt is never addressed; obvious debt is dealt with one way or another.