I don't buy the explanation of societies collapsing because they're too complex, Some software systems do. But not because some esoteric systemic property of c

I don't buy the explanation of societies collapsing because they're too complex, Some software systems do. But not because some esoteric systemic property of complex systems, but just because working projects get deprived of maintainers and eventually there's nobody that understands WTF original programmers intended and how to fix the holes. So incomprehensible portions of the system are circumvented or replaced with something that just works. Actually the same happens in societies, unless some group sabotages the workaround.