Governments could somehow manage to put it under control if they really wanted to, but it would be a very hard pill to swallow and no government aims at making the lives of everyone better in the long run, the aim of any government is to get more votes and stay in power. That’s the problem humanity has faced for decades after decades, the governments we elect do not do what would be good for us, they do what is popular and keep them in power.
The government in this case has not been able to fully control, especially regarding solutions to overcome the recession, and we also don't want to blame them too much, even though the government's function is to protect and guarantee the economy of its people.
But in this case they failed to make it happen.
So, keeping it this way at a damaging but not crisis level gives them "some" advantage, if they did hard recession measures that would make it very hard, and then they would be ousted, and won't get re-elected, which is not what they want.
and maybe this is more on the political side, in this case it may be difficult for us to understand, because indeed if we have dealt with such matters, it will be difficult for us to develop problem-solving options when dealing with them.