Obviously I'm not laying out a formal aesthetic argument and most people today feel that aesthetics are not objective, making an objective argument inherently i

Obviously I'm not laying out a formal aesthetic argument and most people today feel that aesthetics are not objective, making an objective argument inherently impossible. That's a long conversation. Amusingly, in architecture, the gate keeping is done mainly by modernists (high or post) and it is difficult to even learn traditional architecture outside of a few departments. Christopher Alexander, for example, was mostly ignored and scorned by the architectural establishment, and was picked up by software developers who were working in a new medium. Things work out in strange and humorous ways.