[azemetre]

This sounds exactly like fashion to me. One just has to look at how often design has changed over the last decade with the many fads and worst UX.

I feel like when you have an org of designers they will justify in wanting to redesign everything because why else do you need them? The same can be said for some POs and devs as well IMO.

[fny]

Yup. The most brutal environments I've ever worked in canned design folk very quickly once a cost crunch arrived. Some startups would even can designers first to save cash.