the same happens in development with minimalism. for some reason it's the standard even among gnuhards, literally everything is black and as little expression as possible. there's these android drawers which literally show apps as a list of text with no icon. yeah, that's exactly what i want to see, so beautiful... or if you browse unixporn, you'll see most hyprland/niri whatever rices are gnome... i think we should definitely start to take a few lessons from the 2000's school of design. most defintely there were shitty thing, and code minimalism is good. but the user has so very little agency in the expression of how their software looks nowadays that's sad.