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> Alternately, you can say that UX design stabilized on a known good pattern.

Or maybe known-good-enough: We evolved this specific design through a path-dependent fashion, so it could have been different had other designs survived, but nobody else has come up with a new UX paradigm which is sufficiently better to displace it yet.

Various kinds of large dinosaurs were dominant for millions of years, and birds still exist.




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