How exactly does “turning it off and on again” fix such a wide variety of different tech problems?

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How exactly does “turning it off and on again” fix such a wide variety of different tech problems?

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Modern electronic systems include a massive number of sub components, many of which maintain their own state and that can’t be returned to a known state without them being reset. And while hardware designers might provide reset signals for parts of the components, by far the simplest route to ensure everything is back in order is to remove the power and let the normal power sequencing take its course to return the system back to normal.

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