“Collapse is a process, not an event.” It’s very likely we’ll be extinct by the end of the century. There will be all manner of hell from now until then. Our population of over 8 billion is only possible because of a highly complex global web of systems. Complex systems are fragile. Once dominos start falling, people will start starving very quickly.

Because you don’t even dare breathe on load-bearing legacy systems. You want to change the whole app, you insolent heretic?!

Good Lord, I thought that was just the OP’s screwup. Nope, it’s on the actual source page. What a bummer.