While having algorithms and computers dictating every aspect of train movements, crew scheduling, resource allocation is efficient and in a sense optimal, I think there's something compelling to be said about having a system that can survive with human-rememberable patterns when such an optimizer fails. That it can fall back on (or have at the core) simple patterns that people can still operate without algorithmic in…
There is an Isac Asimov book about this. A crew is stranded in space, because of a computer malfunction and no one on board remembers how they used to be programmed.
I was going to say it kinda reminds me of the AI(s) in Neuromancer. In that novel it felt like the AIs were 1000 steps ahead of humans and pretty much just using then as pawns, selecting them carefully from the population, knowing they could either abuse their conditions to control them, or just flat out blackmail them.