[piombisallow]

If you have the infrastructure to build an orbital ring, you have the infrastructure to keep it supplied too

[pantalaimon]

There is some SciFi story about civilization collapsing and the survivors worrying that the sky will fall on them hidden in there.

[dyauspitr]

Gotta make the individual pieces small enough to mostly burn up completely on rentry.

[jaggederest]

Term of art for this is "design for demise", i.e. make everything of pieces small enough and materials ablative enough that there's less than 1 in 10k chance that any debris will survive to the surface.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

[jvm___]

Planned obsolescence but in a good way.

[Vecr]

Already exists, Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. They absolutely trash orbit by planning very badly and over-packing habitats.