Comment by Shitty-kitty

Stability is definitely good but excessive stability leads to stagnation. A perfect example of this is what's been coined as the "boring billion"

"In 1995, geologists Roger Buick, Davis Des Marais, and Andrew Knoll reviewed the apparent lack of major biological, geological, and climatic events during the Mesoproterozoic era 1.6 to 1 billion years ago (Ga), and, thus, described it as "the dullest time in Earth's history"