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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by specialist on Friday August 02, 2019 @04:38PM (#20596428)
"...wish it had a name..."

IIRC, I think first read the phrase "complexity catastrophe" in the book Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Per the authors, it's when a system becomes so complex (interdependent) that the cost of any further changes far outweigh the expected benefit.

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Rules-Vol-Power-Modularity/dp/...

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