The basic premise of this article is false, and the argument is presented in a disingenuous way by cherry picking examples. The example photo collages are colle

The basic premise of this article is false, and the argument is presented in a disingenuous way by cherry picking examples. The example photo collages are collections of things that in real life look quite different, but are artificially arranged to make the differences hard to visually detect- e.g. a grid of car photos scaled to all be the same size, colored the same, and too small to visually tell the very different shapes apart. Granted, trends exist, and an awful lot of Air BnBs do have "California Pizza Kitchen" aesthetics but one can just as easily choose a representative set of really visually unique places. Additionally, often things tend to look the same for really functional reasons. One could present a collage of, e.g. groups of distantly related animals that all have nearly identical body shapes and coloring. This convergent evolution happens naturally when form follows function, and a certain form is massively more functional than others.