Think it's just more the SV aesthetic that was spawned from iOS7 and Material design era forwards was originally meant to be the glass of water in the land of skeuomorphism has instead become the aesthetic of all products the optimize for conversion rather than experience.
All your kind of miserable experiences in the notification misery mobile world have the background muzak of iOS7 and Material design. It's almost like carpet and celling tiles of the DMV.
And west coast/SV just doesn't understand anything beyond this aesthetic anymore, there is no charm or whimsy in any of their products, even when they try to forcefully inject charm into it like with Memoji the end result comes across like a robot make it, it's just not actually cute or funny just feels gross somehow like there isn't any cuteness, humor or wit to any of it and it's super apparent when you compare it to similar products like Line Friends or even Bitmoji manages to have wit to their work.
You've pushed a whole generation of designers in SV to focus on the wrong thing really and this is why all these SV platforms will eventually be up for grabs and the ones that dethrone them are going to be coming from strange places and wont be understandable to the current platform barons. Look how alien Tiktok was to IG they're still trying to replicate it but its almost like they can't understand it and I don't mean because it's a Chinese product I just mean the muscles required to understand what make it great have completely atrophied in SV product designers.
