1) It definitely feels like we're out of Cambrian explosion period of experimentation
2) It's amazing the amount of (pseudo-) nostalgia that millenials, gen-Z and younger have for 90s-2010s computer aesthetic. The Amazing Digital Circus comes to mind for example
On the contrary, this discussion is how there was no character when you were typing your sudo password in in the olde times, and now there is a full asterisk per every password symbol you put in!
Whimsy, and character.
Used to be that everything was trying to look different. Now it seems like everything is trying to look the same.