I feel like this is an extremely unpopular opinion but I really don't think republicanism was a step forward for humanity.
Monarchy is the most intuitive form of government. People tend to take care of what they own, and politicians have no incentive to leave anything better for the next generation because they really have no stake in their country. Their legacy dies with them.
A monarchy with constitutional (and familial) checks and balances is vastly preferable to a republic where the foreign interests run free and loot the taxpayers. It's pure and much simpler. No Congress, no Supreme Court, no ridiculous sham elections. Everyone knows who's in charge and what the rules are.
I mean types of governments are not perfect and all have strengths and weaknesses. Even monarchies are not perfect and will eventually succumb to corruption. Venice itself would become corrupt with the black nobility. But that is because the common people become irredeemable corrupt. However, in America that has happened much faster because there are no bulwarks like the Church, or the Christian King to nip such revolutions in the bud.