The full quote seems misguided: And yet: Please show me a product or object hailed by the design elite as Good that doesn’t just so happen to be aesthetically

The full quote seems misguided: And yet: Please show me a product or object hailed by the design elite as Good that doesn’t just so happen to be aesthetically pleasing. (To the design elite, anyway.) “How it looks,” in other words, matters, both to the critics and to the market. "Critics" and any "design elite" of note are far, far different audiences than the markets which people produce for. Craigslist, Bloomberg, Myspace are, yes, all examples of this.