Systems that have a single handle to control them are more volatile, fundamentally.

More directly tied to the whims of whoever has their hand on the handle right now.

Even if the driver is calm, they're more volatile than a consensus algorithm (which is naturally smooth).

And they could be a real hot head and yank it back and forth quickly.

Large organizations without a single handle are very hard to make volatile.

That can be a curse (making it harder to achieve upside) but also a blessing (making it harder to do something erratic).

Less volatile systems are more predictable; easier for everyone else to take for granted and not waste precious brain cycles trying to guess what precisely they will do.