If you try to control an open system, you make it closed.

The infinite potential becomes finite.

You get control but the tradeoff is making it mortal, a discontinuous category change.

However, you can garden an open system without making it closed.

Gardening is about planting seeds, providing fertilizer and trellises, pruning back and weeding, but fundamentally giving the space to plants to grow.

You get the best of both worlds!