Design by performance specification. Just as a drop of rain falling on the ridge of a continental divide must eventually find its way down to either the Pacific Basin or the Atlantic Basin, roll down one side or the other it must. The universe posts its own rules and emerges out of a self-consistent thing. Maybe that's not impossible, this notion that quarks and gluons and atoms and elementary particles have invented the laws by which they transform one another. Another way of putting it, too many agents have a say in each other's work, and bureaucratic rigor mortis sets in.
Adaptability conks out into grid-lock.
For a contemporary culture primed to the virtues of connecting up, this low ceiling of connectivity comes as unexpected news.