It was always that way. You trade originality with convenience.

* It is fun and energizing to hunt with friends but it is convenient to buy stuff from supermarket.

* It is fun to talk and share but convenient to browse tv/phone

* It is fun to walk and run but convenient to drive

Technologically slowly takes us away from the real world and into this abstract convenient world.

AI just accelerated it.

It's just a local minimum. Things today are generally pretty good, and work generally well.

The only issue is that things work well all in the same way, and deficiencies are also shared.

Things will improve as creatives try far-out ideas outside of the local minima. But all those ideas will then be copied into the mono-thing.

At the end of the day, if this isn't about art, I don't see the issue. If your website exists to perform a function, I would rather it looks and acts like all of the other websites in the world.

It's just enshittification and economic incentive, which drives everything. I hope this changes.