alt Hacker NewsThey don't and they do not have to, because the market (as broken as it often is) usually, eventually, selects for taste being visible in the end product.
Higher-ups do not need to concur with that. They just get.. how does on say today.. "left behind".
> because the market (as broken as it often is) usually, eventually, selects for taste being visible in the end product.
The operative word being "visible", in the most literal sense? 9 times out of 10 the market seems to select for cost first, appearance second, functionality third.
I think prime example of this is the prevalence of ad-supported business models. People would rather be interrupted with tasteless ads and pay twice (attention, everything costs more to pay for ads which they watched) than pay a tiny sum of money that they can afford.