Not only ignorance, but greed, anxiety, and the will to power and
glory complicate people's desire to be in control of things.
I was playing around the other day with the idea that Final Fantasy has entered its Baroque period - if the golden age
glory of VI - IX represents the series at its zenith (some
people would include X in there, but I couldn't stand that game), then X-XIII represents the series getting pointlessly
complicated and self - congratulatory, to the point of alienating its audience.