[sabon]

Designers decide that they need to change the logo and come up with 50 variations, from bland to wild. Then a committee decides on "the best" one. With each, someone on the committee finds something they don't like, until there's nothing to take away, just bare, sans serif, black letters.

[yyy888sss]

Same 'committee' effect happens with pop music, each song has many writers and goes through many layers of the music label before it is a released, that the song ends up very generic but also listenable to a lot of people.

[tinus_hn]

Check out this song created by democratic process:

https://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/05/survey-produced...

And the opposite:

https://www.wired.com/2008/04/a-scientific-at/