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>Holy shit you are missing the point of the Imperium being its own worst enemy.
No.
The WORLD is the enemy.
The entire key point in the WH40k universe is that the WORLD is grimdark. It's the WORLD and the pressures it places on the species that forces them into unending warfare and internal oppression. Just the existence of the Warp makes ordinary life entirely untenable, as heresy would immediately spread everywhere.
>The average Imperial citizen lives a excruciating, dehumanizing life surrounded on all sides by filth, rot, and decay of better times, whipped into a frenzy of bloodlust against everything and anything different, while being ruled from above by endlessly scheming and plotting nobility who live lives of unimaginable excess to the point of being jaded, burnt out husks to what people would consider normal.
And you would go about fixing this how exactly?
Any attempts at reconstructing the Imperium would destabilize it and open it up to heresy to a degree where the Imperium could not and would not survive.
The Imperium is the way it is because it must be that way.