I don't understand why this is stunning. You have a vast, complex networked system and a critical part has failed; it's not a shutdown switch that ends the syst

I don't understand why this is stunning. You have a vast, complex networked system and a critical part has failed; it's not a shutdown switch that ends the system outright. Components of the system will logically continue to work until their requirements are affected enough to compromise their function, and, if an intervention is organized to restore those requirements before such a time, it stands to reason that they will continue to function.