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This was my first thought as well. Isn’t there another truism, where something advances to a common end state?

Convergent evolution would be the general term I think. Not sure if there's a pithy technological or software -ism.

The form of this that became a meme relatively recently was carcinization - "everything becomes crabs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

This is what I was thinking of, thank you!!