Look, I get the impulse behind the diversity mandate. I really do. More representation on screen is a good thing. But I'm not convinced this rule is actually working the way people hoped. The problem is it feels like a quota system, not a real culture shift. Studios are just checking boxes now. They cast one or two diverse leads, pat themselves on the back, and call it progress. But the stories themselves? Often still formulaic, still written by the same old teams. I worry we're getting tokenism dressed up as inclusion. And here's the thing I keep turning over in my head: does it actually help the artists? Or does it just make the Academy look good? If we're really serious about diversity, shouldn't we be fixing the pipeline—the funding, the development, the gatekeeping—instead of just tweaking who gets nominated? I'm genuinely not sure. But it feels like a band-aid on a broken system.