Why do bland designs, whether it be cars or furniture or tech gadgets etc., tend to age better than striking adventurous designs which were more loved when they came out?

Question

Why do bland designs, whether it be cars or furniture or tech gadgets etc., tend to age better than striking adventurous designs which were more loved when they came out?

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Answer 1

Most anything nowadays is designed in such a way to appeal to the widest range possible of people, cast as wide a net as possible as it were.

The more variety of people the design can appeal to, the longer it tends to stay around and only changes when it needs to be changed, or changed gradually over time.

More striking or adventurous designs of any sort really only appeal to a smaller number of people and thus are less likely to hang around long enough to become “mainstream”