If a social media platform is running smoothly, but the engineers leave, why can’t a platform continue to run on autopilot?

Question

I guess this is applicable to any social media platform or other similar systems. Is it because there are always bugs to address, so it’s never really running smoothly, or other reasons?

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Answer 1

Because like a plane, it will run into problems naturally and from surrounding conditions, so if you don’t keep the entire thing maintained the wrong problem unchecked can completely break it apart