I said something similar some time ago: the universe is a complex Rube Goldberg machine trying to annihilate itself as efficiently as possible (principle of least action), but failing spectacularly because each part of the system has only imperfect information (local information) about how to act to achieve that annihilation.

As you say, if every point in spacetime had perfect information about what's going on at all other points (i.e., it was connected to other spacetime events not constrained by the speed-of-light ratio), the universe would perfectly balance itself and vanish in an instant.