> Even more so are design and development trends. No, they’re completely not. Trends are not a shared resource such that a few people misusing it harms that re

> Even more so are design and development trends. No, they’re completely not. Trends are not a shared resource such that a few people misusing it harms that resource for everyone. Something being common doesn’t make it a commons. Any website can choose not to do these things - just look at HN. They’re not a necessary shared resource, in the same way that all Baltic countries must fish from the same sea.