"Brittleness of Replication" is the best way I've heard of to describe that feature.

Replication is awesome when it works but there seems to be no end of weird circumstances that can bring it crashing down. So much so that in our shop, we have a No-New-Replication policy. We have a lot of replication already and fixing the frequent problems takes way too much of my team's time.

Replication has definitely improved over the years but it is still not robust enough to do the self-healing it should do.