Ah, I really appreciate that you've made that connection. Given the current state of politics in the US, I'm afraid if I ever bring it up it'll be perceived as a gimmicky talking point for expanding socialist policies, but literally every engineer (or someone who's tinkered with something) knows that removing components from a system is an effective method for testing its robustness. Even more so, the worst time to figure out that your system is not robust is the exact moment when you need it to be robust.