Design and framework churn is a sort of conspicuous consumption. It's not that, taken literally, your 1997 geocities site has gotten any worse - it's that makin

Design and framework churn is a sort of conspicuous consumption. It's not that, taken literally, your 1997 geocities site has gotten any worse - it's that making something better is so trivial that if you don't make something better you look like an idiot / someone without resources / totally un-self-aware.