A lot of people are going to be very upset, after the exact origin of this problem has been tracked down. They won't just be annoyed that the secret market failed, but that it failed in such an obvious, straightforward way.
And annoyed worse, that when the system did fail, the alternatives immediately available to fall back on were so paltry. Why didn't Exception Handling just request for the system to have a comprehensible-reasons-only operating mode that the trading software could fall back to, if the complicated statistical stuff started producing obviously bad outputs? Shouldn't you obviously do that, if you're a Governance project only pretending to be a real market using a tiny handful of custom-written codebase, and broken software can't just leave and come back later? Somebody just coded up a system in blind imitation of a real illegible medical market, when those systems should have at least had a legible failsafe fallback mode that could immediately kick in! Obviously! There should've been a legible system like that checking all the illegible 'market' results, considering how the secret 'market' was ultimately a fake one that lacked the pseudo-adversarial inexploitability of a real market!
They will feel that this failure lacked dignity. One of the sharper comments will be that if there actually had been a Sparashki present, Civilization would have embarrassed itself in front of aliens by failing like this.
Dath ilan lacks some context.