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>> then those become dominant to the point where it seems superfluous

Interesting. Can you give an example that happening over the large scale in some non-military field?

It's just a variation of the Normalization of Deviance. See this[1] short talk by Richard Cook for a very good explanation of the mechanism that causes the transition from "robust" to "superfluous".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60

Apropos to ransomware, network filers.

As the network gets more dangerous, old mechanisms aren’t safe to operate, so you transition to a cloud file solition.

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