I don't think I am qualified to answer the question, but it is worth noting that the basic institutional/constitutional structures of the Ausgleich did not require renewal every ten years - or at least, only some of them did.

The Fundamental Laws (especially the Fundamental Law of 21 Dec 1867, known in German as the 'Gesetz über die allen Ländern der österreichischen Monarchie gemeinsamen Angelegenheiten und die Art hirer Behandlung', and informally as the 'Delegationsgesetz' because it established the 'delegations' by which the Austrian and Hungarian parliaments communicated) divided shared matters into two categories: (1) things handled in common; and (2) things handled according to common principles.

The things handled in common (war, foreign affairs, finance for joint services), set out in Article 1, were permanently entrusted to imperial institutions. Only the things 'handled according to common principles', set out in Article 2, (customs union, common currency, railways) had to be renewed at intervals.

I cannot find the source document in English, but it is available in German here and in French here.

John Deak in 'Forging a Multinational State: State-Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War' (which is a very interesting book if, like me, you are a relative beginner to this subject) says that after the outbreak of the First World War the parliamentary institutions and constitutional norms which had been taking root quite successfully since 1867 collapsed, and that military rule effectively ended the politics of compromise and negotiation that had marked the Austro-Hungarian empire in the previous 50 years.

I'm sure someone else can be along to give a more detailed answer, but I hope this contains enough of substance for the mods not to just delete it.

(I'm not a historian of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but I have an interest in constitutional history, which is how I ended up learning a little about this very fascinating country during that period).