So, them Allagans... (possible spoilers)

[Fenral]

The allagans were a culture were they had no back ups, no plan B on case the automatons fail beacuse they thought it was not necesary. That was their doom.
When everything falled, the survivors had no idea how to fix or operate the remaining machines.

All they could do was to go to truly ludicrous lengths so that one day their perpetually hand-holding society could be reinstated as it was always meant to be. Because that was never an issue, the real problem was Xande and Dalamud.

Or was it?

(Like I said, bone to pick.)