It feels like we are very close to delivering looped narratives. The timespan is known and events will repeat.

These closed-loop worlds could be refined forever, their denizens even recorded and replayed, in curated gardens of experience.

The conceit is we cannot affect the Objective Throughline¹, but live as only character-functions resolving our own problems.

¹ https://dramatica.com/dictionary/objective-story-throughline