It’s a generational change - much easier to make a career by discarding what came before rather than competing with it. You will see this in a lot of areas of society.
It's funny how a "generation" left Apple and suddenly they're rolling back all kinds of changes to how they were before that generation "made their mark".
It also gets a lot of emphasis because armchair ui architects think it’s cool to show they know this ‘big word’.
The Santa Claus effect by design makes everything made by “adults” obsolete.