Nice! I have a similar set of scripts for google cloud instances. And my favorite is also the resizing one. Just soo much more convenient than using the UI.
They also automatically mount an sshfs of the instance's home directory, which I found very helpful for e.g. working with output the instance produced that can't easily be interacted with in a terminal.
In case anyone is interested: gcloud-connect-instance, gcloud-change-type (but fair warning: I haven't used them in a while, and updates to the gcloud cli/api might have broken some things).
How the equilibrium gets restored in each direction:
I think my browser tab and social interaction examples on the post on stable equilibria fit in better here. They're much more dynamic than stable.
I really like the chess example. Anything continuous that gets discretized is similar. Like the color of a pixel in a photo, or whether you have crossed the finish line in a race.
This makes me think of "radiation-hardened" quines, quines that output themselves even after deleting any one character (or three):
https://github.com/mame/radiation-hardened-quine
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/100785
I'm not familiar with the method used, but maybe it can be adapted to the case you are imagining? Maybe for simplicity only for the voting part of a redundant system.