At the end of the day, power gets over concentrated till there is a reaction. After the reaction, the State fails as smaller units of power devour it.
Soon, those small units will band together in order to fight and consume other units till you have a State again.
This is history. The outward forms typically don’t matter.
We are on the downswing, and heading (I believe) to a “dark” age.
True, which is why there is no downside to calling for an Article V state convention to propose structural amendments to our constitution.