I think you're being a little unfair. The world is a large system of systems. I'm going to use the analogy of a set of spinning tops of varying sizes and speeds. For the longest while it has seemed that most of these spinning tops have been quite stable, whizzing around perfectly balanced - and they have. So much so, that people have forgotten that there is any other state. Recently however there have been changes - small initially - that have perturbed some of these tops so that they are now wobbling and bumping into other tops, cascading perturbations. Perturbations are scary and - no surprise - hard to predict where they'll go. No one really understands (though they may try and guess) what's going to happen next. The current state of the tops seems to bear no relation to how we started. How did we get here? What can we do? Meanwhile, well meaning but largely ignorant "spinners of tops" are busily trying to restore the earlier balanced state by various means, not realising that they are only adding to the chaos.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, very complex systems can have emergent complex (even chaotic) behaviours not originally anticipated. Outputs no longer bear a recognisable relation to inputs. Or even simpler, never ascribe to malice[1] what is often the result of ignorance/incompetence.
[1] Though clearly, there are some malicious actors who are now exploiting the chaos and introducing perturbations to their own short advantage.