Beauty in the machine - Post-industrial design

A twitter thread by Sheehan Quirke (aka the Cultural Tutor) has been making the rounds lately, arguing that modern things lack beauty, variety, detail, and identity. But I think that these conversations stop short of an important conclusion: design is a radically different exercise than it was in the 18th, 13th or 5th century. Industrialization has made the world more deeply interconnected, automated, and chaotic.