I think at least we have gradients and less muted colors coming back. We also have way better typography than 20 years ago, and I think that's what truly makes

I think at least we have gradients and less muted colors coming back. We also have way better typography than 20 years ago, and I think that's what truly makes older designs "look old". They were restricted to web-safe fonts and had to put stylized text and wordmarks into low resolution images. We have better browser support for SVGs too.