John quoted The Systems Bible by John Gall
Content warning Section A.3
A large system, produced by expanding the dimensions of a smaller system, does not behave like the smaller system
— The Systems Bible by John Gall (Page 24)
I have found this to be a common failure mode of protocol and systems design in software as well. We often try to maintain the assumptions, capacities and the operation of adding features or performing maintenance on small systems when either the system grows in complexity or the team operating on them expands in count or geography.