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> There are certainly people who like to tweak things a little, and then there are the tinkerers who want to use custom fonts or other changes. I wonder if the customization slowed down as computers for work got more standardized?

As the expectation became "We should design our products so that the most technologically inept person can use it" customization in general got sidelined and a huge number of users are either unaware of what customization options still exist or lack the confidence or capability to take advantage of it. The result is that for most people's stuff, everything looks standardized and a small number of folks (the ones who have always loved customizing and personalizing everything) are the exception.

Perhaps those of us who like to customize were always doomed to be the exception rather than the rule since sticking with defaults is the path of least resistance and as long as something mostly works many users won't bother to change anything at all. It's also harder for the pro-customization crowd because eventually developers are going to consider something along the lines of: "The majority of our users use whatever defaults we impose on them, and having things more standardized can make it easier for support anyway, so why are we spending time/resources maintaining all these customization options that only a few people use and which could potentially make a clueless user confused and angry." which can lead to further restricting/limiting customization options.