Beauvais Cathedral and the meaning of Gothic style

During the Gothic timed it was a competition who will built highest cathedral.
This competition was continued until

“The dramatic collapse in 1284 of the tallest among them, Beauvais, marked the vertical limits of Gothic architecture.”

Read about the story of The Collapse of the Vaults of Beauvais Cathedral:
The Collapse of the Vaults of Beauvais Cathedral in 1284 Maury I. Wolfe, Robert MarkSpeculum, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Jul., 1976), pp. 462-476
doi:10.2307/2851708
There were multiple Reasons of this disaster. According to this source it was

"Cathedral building in medieval France was plagued by turf battles. Without a stable government, it's hard to get long-term projects like cathedrals built without interruption."

But , may be , the reason was in the essences of Gothicism itself. There were reasons why this style was called "Gothic", after all! Legacy of Goths and other barbarians reflected in this style. It was no longer about religiosity only , it was about pride with religion, which is oxymoron in some sense, by definition. Thus, the drive to visualize the Ego materialized in the collapse of highest cathedral of that time , symbolizing the limits of pride and ego.