@afalli The reign of Ramesses II fascinates me for many reasons. Basically, his long life (90) and reign (~70) for the era seems to have doomed the XIXth Dynasty.
1. He outlived his 12 oldest sons, so his successor did his "apprenticeship" as an old man.

@afalli 2. There's a hypothesis among historians that the longevity also damaged the Scribes. Basically, by the time he died, the most senior Scribes were his juniors. There was no longer any lived experience or institutional knowledge for handling a new Pharaoh.

@afalli The drop in quality of his successors (Merneptah, Seti II, Siptah) may be in part due to this: they didn't get the type of early-years guidance from Vizier and senior Scribes as their predecessors.

@afalli There's no consensus on this, but I lean towards accepting it. A Syrian named Chancellor Bay became the top bureaucrat in Egypt after Ramesses died. This would have been unheard of just years before. It suggests the Royal House had lost respect for the Scribes.