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> Do they genuinely expect that to work so easily?

I mean... honestly? Yeah.
For a lot of 'grimdark' settings, the grimdark nature is top-down enforced by author fiat. It doesn't actually make sense for the world to be that way, or for people to make those decisions. But they are forced to by the author to do so in order to MAKE the setting grimdarker. This naturally clashes when you introduce players, who are not controlled by such authorial (in this case, the GM) intent, and thus can act in ways that make the world better as opposed to worse. Which they will naturally want to do, because the world being grimdark doesn't BENEFIT them but at least the part of the world they are in being safer and more stable DOES.

For an example of grimdark being stupid, lets talk about 40k. 40k is full of surface-level excuses for why the setting has to be as shit as it is, which don't hold up under scrutiny and which could be remedied in short order if only people in the setting were not irrationally dedicated to actively making their lives suck more. As an extremely simple example, AdMech doctrine makes no sense and would be impossible to enforce. You simply cannot police every living person to make sure that no one else knows how to fix their tractor without calling space monks 15 years away to send a guy to do it for you. Technological knowledge naturally disseminates, and the moment it does the Imperium's need to rely on the AdMech crumbles and Terra would be strongly motivated to make sure that it does. An Imperium not bogged down with the dumbshit Admech would have had 20,000 years of technological progress since the start of the Great Crusade to deal with its problems.

It's an unsustainable, obviously self-sabotaging, and extremely disruptable system. The only reason that the AdMech haven't already been kicked out is because the narrator says it can't be done. No other reason.

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