For me, Computer Modern Font (CMF) looks like it's an example for how to write Metafont.

The serifs are incredibly pronounced, making every document typeset with it look like a Roman tombstone. But that's a common theme with (La)TeX: It tries to look like a book from a long-gone by century. It reproduces a very conservative aesthetic.

(La)TeX stayed frozen in time, trying to perfect typesetting for a fixed output medium at a certain pixel density whilst the majority of users view the same text on very different displays, with different size, pixel density, aspect ratio, orientation, ...