This is the reason for a lot of design trends - This morning I have been:
* On a laminate wooden desk, in a room with laminate wooden floor (The same logic - neither are real wood, just an old-timey construction).
* Wearing a knitted jumper (which again could be considered stylish from an old-timey perspective, as the manufacturing could have used less thin cotton, but thick cotton is supposed to make it look hand woven)
* In a office which has LED lights hanging down which are designed to look like exposed old lightbulbs (same logic)
* While typing email on my laptop (the logo to which is an envelope, arguably to remind you of the old-timey mail system).
Heck, even my headphones have some fake leather on them, which is effectively just a fake material just to look like older materials which are actually less soft, and my coat has some fluff that is designed to make it look like coats used to look like when they were made from animal fur (even though, now, that is considered abhorrent, fake fur is still a thing, everyone just knows it's simulating the old material for whatever reason, because that was the old style).
So I think design trends in general come from historic use-cases in the context.
* On a laminate wooden desk, in a room with laminate wooden floor (The same logic - neither are real wood, just an old-timey construction).
* Wearing a knitted jumper (which again could be considered stylish from an old-timey perspective, as the manufacturing could have used less thin cotton, but thick cotton is supposed to make it look hand woven)
* In a office which has LED lights hanging down which are designed to look like exposed old lightbulbs (same logic)
* While typing email on my laptop (the logo to which is an envelope, arguably to remind you of the old-timey mail system).
Heck, even my headphones have some fake leather on them, which is effectively just a fake material just to look like older materials which are actually less soft, and my coat has some fluff that is designed to make it look like coats used to look like when they were made from animal fur (even though, now, that is considered abhorrent, fake fur is still a thing, everyone just knows it's simulating the old material for whatever reason, because that was the old style).
So I think design trends in general come from historic use-cases in the context.