At one company, I was technically on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week for over ten years. Did I get called that often? No. Did I get called at the worst possible moments? Yes.
That's not a problem with the concept of being oncall. That's an entirely different problem that's not technical nor operational not industry-specific.
Isn’t the fact that you receive calls seldomly, but at the worst possible moment literally the core problem of being oncall?
And it’s certainly industry-specific. Some doctors have this, firefighters—and software engineers. Contrary to the first two, they usually don’t save lives, but revenue though.
I think this is partially why things like discord and in general semi-private circles are very popular. Here on HN discord is often criticized cause it's inherently a closed platform but that also makes it less accessible for content enshittificators.
To be clear the government change in Moldova is more like an internal reorg of the current ruling party. The new government continues the same agenda as the previous one, and only a few members have changed.
Describing it as a "collapse" is purposefully misleading.
I'd say nothing except human nature.