[adolph]

Yes, it is called “fashion.” People periodically replace clothing or reconstruct buildings or alter cooking or food presentation. It doesn’t change much but it does maintain a great deal of economic activity, keeps the motors running as it were. By and large operating systems and websites and mature software systems are similar. It is a good thing because it soaks up the attention of people who would delay efforts to evolve, example Microsoft contemplating its OS navel as Netscape came about. It is also good because a small amount of the large economic value of fashion is still more than sufficient for the development of something new. As the “startup” has become fashionable the cycle repeats where the relatively inanimate bones of effort that doesn’t create new value is used as a framework for the rare things that do.