For a while now, I've been summarizing the ease with which everything turns into a "Humanity Complete" problem via: "Delegation affords so much, but trust sure is tricky."

This has been observed forever in various forms/contexts. Planning & policy people call them "Wicked Problems" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem). The Philosophy of Science one goes by the Demarcation Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem) { roughly, in the sense that the really hard nugget connects to "trust" }.

At least one aspect of all of it is that trust is a little like money/capital and "faking it" is a bit like "stealing". The game theory of it is that since faking is virtually always vastly cheaper there are (eventually) huge incentives to do so, at some point by someone(s). So, almost any kind of trust/delegation structure has a strong pull toward "decay", from knock-off brands to whatever. It just takes a sadly small fraction of Prisoner's Dilemma defectors to ruin things/systems thereof. 2nd law of thermo makes order cost energy and this decay feels like almost an isomorphic (maybe even the same..?) thing. It's not just product/tech enshittification, but that might be yet another special case/example.

Anyway, I have no great answers or as some responder to me a while back said, if I did, I'd "have a Nobel and possibly be the first president of the united planet".