Taste problem and the masses

I remember when the Tesla website redesigned in 2020 or so, it was beautiful. Full-page car photography, Benchmark Capital website simplicity vibes. It started getting worse around 2023-2024. People who built the original site likely left, seeing their stock grants surge and wanting to do something else with their life. A banner would pop up at the top, like one of those annoying GDPR Cookie things. The website has a header and a bento grid style design now, but in no way does it have the immersive aesthetic appeal of old. It's messy and kind of incoherent, but still a lot better than your legacy automakers' website design.

Here's the catch: I'm not sure most people could feel why the new site is worse, nor would they care. Like how statues of Founding Fathers were desecrated, ugly spray paint murals and modernist art (think of the CMU walking to sky pole) pop up, and cities become ever more deforested and concrete-jungle like, the masses but also the leadership mostly do not care. Trying to enforce beauty to them is like trying to mix oil and water.

I have my personal ideas for why the people are like this, and I think it not possible to effect change with education or at large scale anymore, where only you perhaps may find your small community and carve out small corners to live the good life.