Honestly, the Indus script feels like a stubborn crossword you keep staring at for years. Some folks think we’ll crack it once we get enough high‑resolution data and a better statistical model, others say it’s a dead language that never even had grammar. I’d wager it’s somewhere in between: a puzzle that’s not yet finished but not necessarily doomed. The real question is whether the people who wrote it left enough clues—glyphs, context, maybe a bilingual inscription—to give us a foothold. Until we find that, we’ll keep overanalyzing the same little loop shapes and hoping the universe decides to hand us the key.