Did Western Roman Empire Done Differently To Delay Or Prevent Its Collapse?

What could the Western Roman Empire have done differently to delay or prevent its collapse? (1800-2000 words)

Synthesis

By taking measures to ingrain respect for the Emperor and civilians in the legion, and decreasing personality cults among generals the Empire could have prevented many civil wars and thus remained strong enough to defend their lands and at the very least delay their collapse.

Introduction:

Paragraph 1: Rome was weakened due to constant civil wars started by legion generals

To be able to determine what the Western Roman Empire could have done differently to delay its collapse, it first needs to be decided how it collapsed in the first place. The Roman Empire peaked in territory size in 117 AD, spanning from Britain to Africa

The empire continued to contract as it lost territory until it was too weak to defend its capital city, Rome. A major reason for this decline was the Roman Legion’s weakness. The Legion was subject to constant civil wars between different generals, causing the army to be stuck in perpetual weakness. Every time the army recovered, a powerful general would sense an opportunity and claim the title of Emperor, igniting a civil war in the process. Over the course of the Roman Empire's life, it went through a total of seven civil wars, each one crippling the Empire’s army, infrastructure, and wealth. Because of this, the Empire was unable to defend its lands from invaders. Infighting among generals would weaken the army, allowing barbarians to take land,

The legionnaires of the Roman Empire were almost entirely landless plebeians, so their success rested entirely on their generals shoulders. If a Roman soldier’s general was unsuccessful, so would the soldier. Legionnaires had no wealth or power of their own, so when their generals would declare themselves the Emperor of Rome, their soldiers would have no other option but to follow and fight for their general. If a soldier refused to fight for their rogue general they would either be killed by the rest of the general’s forces, or they would have to abandon the army and attempt to survive alone, with no money, resources, or help, and likely stranded far from Rome or any other major settlements. Another reason soldiers would almost always follow their generals no matter what was due to the development of personality cults among the army. When a Roman joined the legion as a soldier they were assigned a general and they stayed with that general until they died or retired. This made it incredibly easy for some generals to build a cult of personality among their forces, and soldiers were much more loyal to the general they had fought beside for years than an Emperor they’d never met, or the city of Rome which many soldiers had never even seen before as they had come from the surrounding villages or tribes, many not even being from Roman