The curse of the Airbnb aesthetic (2020)

I like reading stuff like this, the McMansion Hell girl, the Humans of Flat Design guy (RIP), etc because I have no design expertise and they put real words to aesthetics I find viscerally revolting. But something keeps gnawing at me whenever I engage with this sort of criticism: maybe I just don't like design trend X because it's popular, and seeing X always reminds me that I'm living here, now, in 2021.

I think this article is more about homogeneity than "gray floors bad," but I imagine much of the first world has been locked into this monoculture for some time now. Would be fun to read a 90s/naughts version of this same piece, where some now hopelessly out of date color or piece of furniture is cast as a shibboleth of souless globalism. Lime green? I feel like like lime green had a moment forever ago.