There's a reality where Inception was made by David Fincher and we got an incredible psychological thriller out of it instead of "This is my dead wife, she is named 'Bad' in French"
I once read an article about Inception as a metaphor for filmmaking that made some interesting points and it made me like Inception more, or at least think about it a bit (which the film itself failed to do)
i deeply upset someone once by pointing out its a film about doing things in an infinite dreamscape where the big reveal is people making generic hotels and their office blocks
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Which is one of the things that I think makes the 'metaphor for filmmaking' thing interesting. I don't know if Nolan intended it that way, but 'infinite dreamscape where people just make familiar things' could also be a statement about filmmaking, or at least Nolan's kind of filmmaking.
the lack of depth elsewhere makes me think that he really did think that a rotating generic hallway was the creative imagination, sadly. Especially combined with the rest of the narrative, which is "Why isnt Michael Caine killing the man who killed his daughter"