> I do belief they will attempt to implement it, it will fail, and people will have to live with navigating around the ruins of the attempted control system.

It's very likely that there are contingency plans in place to ensure that a majority of invertible failures can still be converted into success over a period of time. 

Example: Driver licenses weren't fully implemented in the US until 1954. It took the system several years to achieve full implementation.

https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/life/cars-trucks/auto-history/the-history-of-the-drivers-license/