I think later systems were at a core an attempt to implement something like high-frequency (which is a misnomer, it's more like low-latency) trading over 1960-70s tech at a scope that we still have no means to do now, in 2020s.
"trading" was ideologically prohibited term which didn't help any.
And the whole centralized approach cannot scale.
So there you have it: it can't work, please bring new ideas.
I think people could try social experiments and compare the productivity differences resulting from different management styles on LLMs instead of humans.
It’s a desperate attempt by people who understand that identifying huge problems in the easy part. So much of life is just people thinking that by identifying the problem they’re 99% of the way to fixing it.
But apply this to something you understand in detail, unlike a whole society. “That guy has a bad heart, better fix it!” That’s something that doesn’t need to be said, never mind repeated like a solution to a hard problem.