I mean, sure, if you want to believe in superheroes, that's fine. But heroics typically have an opportunity to exist due to extreme events. Those, in turn, mostly happen due to massive screwups or deliberate large destructive events. Occasionally, accidents, but that's not what you're talking about.

If you want insight as to why heroic interventions are a sign of failure, talk to your IT department and then scale that up to nation states.

Wow! I have never seen it stated that well. I always said this one team got hero status for saving a contract that was horribly underbid in schedule and budget, so they proceeded to underbid contracts to recreate the success. If we treated heroics as a red flag we would all be better off.

I completely agree that the need of superheroic actions may arise by the result of self inflicted pains and it is usually the case in big corps.

At the same time, other heroic efforts may also require hard work to keep up with the competition or to clean up someone's mess.

That seems one of the reason they monitor what is going on and are vigilant: so they are more likely successful at preventing problems before they araise or become too big. Are not those the problems that require superheroic measures?