Long term systems evolution and management might be a better way to think about it. Lehman at Imperial looked into it in the 90's (https://www.researchgate.net/

Long term systems evolution and management might be a better way to think about it. Lehman at Imperial looked into it in the 90's (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220902836_On_Evidence_Supporting_the_FEAST_Hypothesis_and_the_Laws_of_Software_Evolution https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220902836_On_Eviden...) but no one has done much since, and yet we are increasingly dependent on platforms and 20+ year systems. No one knows how to run and manage these systems, yet we do it all the time!