Agreed. Too many assume that a tyrant gets to power on their own and that toppling them is like playing chess - just checkmate the king and you win. The reality seems quite different: the tyrant typically has a quid pro quo arrangement with a large group within the subject population. The tyrant may die or be killed, but the large group that put and helps keep him or her in power will, unless heavily contested, replace the tyrant with one of their own.
