Your sensor reporting system will be forced to report whatever is needed - regardless of the reality of the situation - as soon as the right manager demands more uptime to an engineer, or otherwise they get fired because leadership demands more profit.
If you want to try live without technology, try living in Somalia for few months. Average Somalian would change for you at any moment.
The Middle ages had effectively more technology than the Romans (all the stuff that was invented til the Romans, plus the stuff that was invented later), yet they fared worse, mostly because of religion and feudal lords sabotaging what the Romans managed to achieve.
" There is little record of other sanitation systems (apart from sanitation in ancient Rome) in most of Europe until the High Middle Ages. Unsanitary conditions and overcrowding were widespread throughout Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages. This resulted in pandemics such as the Plague of Justinian (541–542) and the Black Death (1347–1351), which killed tens of millions of people. Very high infant and child mortality prevailed in Europe throughout medieval times, due partly to deficiencies in sanitation. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_water_supply_and_sa...
Even today countries without technology for clean and safe drinking water and sanitation have big problems.
" Without better infrastructure and management, millions of people will continue to die each year from preventable, water-related diseases like malaria and diarrhea. "
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitati...