[hannasanarion]

Sulla had an opportunity to fix everything, but he misidentified the symptoms for the disease, formalizing the cursus honorum and stripping power from the Assembly, instead of changing the incentive structure of the Senate and addressing wealth inequality.

[kingraoul3]

I don't think that's systemic analysis, the governmental form of Republican Rome was based on small freehold farmers. Once they were displaced by the slave-powered Latifundia, the Homo Novus would have find a way to translate their economic power into political power, displacing the patrician class.