"But I worry that sometimes looking for root causes is too clever. The more complex a system, the less likely you are to actually find the root causes; and when you do find them, they turn out to be intermingled with the roots of a lot of other trees, such that you can’t unearth them without doing a lot of unintended damage."
https://etiennefd.substack.com/p/trapped-among-the-root-causes