Modern software development is now caught in an influx of fresh developers/designers, which leads to "best practices" and libraries appealing to less experience

Modern software development is now caught in an influx of fresh developers/designers, which leads to "best practices" and libraries appealing to less experienced and less competent workers, which in turn change the processes everyone uses. In design that means designers converging on some simple to reproduce esthetic like this, which becomes familiar to users, and then ironically becomes popular because of its familiarity. That is, until a few years pass, and a new fad has to surface. I'm predicting Art-Deco in web design within 10 years at this pace.