Most states have made no advancement on the governance structure of Imperial Rome, inasmuch as most states are one system of governance cosplaying another.
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Augustus >>>>> Tiberius > the next > the next with the small occasional <.
Classic case of succession in autocracies being a Hard problem, into inevitable institutional decay and drift.
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Of course he was, and the central architect of its successor.
But he died with a lot of work unfinished and many band-aid fixes in place, plus Tiberius as his less-than-ideal successor, which explains much of the short-term decay.
Well, it would be impossible to fill his shoes.
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Agrippa actually had stewardship of Rome at times, from what I recall.
Dude was a great & massively underrated general and a competent administrator.
But he wasn't, y'know, Augustus.
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Indeed.
Autocracies are fundamentally fragile due to reliance on successors, which is why the oligarchy is the dominant sociopolitical form.
Meanwhile, we pretend to maintain all kinds of different but illusory systems.