This is a question to which I haven't found a satisfying answer yet: why do old houses look better than new ones? There are answers like "only good looking hou

This is a question to which I haven't found a satisfying answer yet: why do old houses look better than new ones? There are answers like "only good looking houses got preserved" or "it's just perception, in a hundred years people will love the houses being build now as much as the houses which were build in the nineteenth century". I don't really buy such arguments. I had some musings about people no longer caring about living in a beautiful house because with fast transportation there is less incentive to make a good impression on your neighbors. Or maybe it's something about craftsmen making less design decisions because of more planing and prefabrication. But these too are just speculations.