I myself have a pretty low bus factor, but I'm pretty sure if I were bus'd, the issues that would eventually crop up would be hard to solve because of the insti

I myself have a pretty low bus factor, but I'm pretty sure if I were bus'd, the issues that would eventually crop up would be hard to solve because of the institutional knowledge that makes me bus-y at all. I suspect neither you nor I work at hyperscale, where I'm given to understand things break much faster and at more interesting scales. It's hardly "physically holding" anything together, but what happens if you leave a bunch of services unmaintained? "Something bad", IMO, and the fact that something bad hasn't actually happened by this stage is impressive; you've really got to hand it to Fauci.