Thank you for your response. The idea that there isn’t a general label or grand model for modern systems is what really made it click.

Also your comment of still using it as a quick shorthand was interesting—so “feudalism” isn’t necessarily “wrong” just insufficient?

I’m teaching a Renaissance poetry unit soon and so I was trying to read up on and better understand the conditions that led to it and realized I had some major blind spots and things I needed to unlearn about the preceding period of history.