It's kind of like radio play music. There's so much drivel that the general masses don't get exposed to the good stuff. Then it kind of becomes the baseline taste for people. So now I hear things like "How can you like that? There's no random rectangles or aluminum fins?"
Then you get a project...
Agreed, been thinking the same thing myself for a while. It looks better than the white/black.
Or they could have kept all the sills above that horizontal reveal joint and had three tones.