Comment by mistrial9

not arguing but .. in systems theory, "good" and "bad" are too simple to be useful. Systems with many parts, have balance, efficiency, productivity .. and also the opposite of those.. in large amounts across many interactions.. from a physics point of view "stability" is also very real. Changes in system characteristics come from the actions and interactions of many individual parts, each one can change, or each class can change.

All of this is important in describing and understanding complex systems. The "rule following" is not simply "good" or "bad" using this analysis framework.