There is a reason that there is so much difference in interior design and art: It is easily changed and preferences vary wildly.
In a block of cookie cutter houses, one need only pick say a color of shutter.
In a block of artistic architecture, there may be one house that many enjoy while most are seen as ugly to most.
If the original builders all really enjoyed say neo-victorian, brutalist homeowners must either find another neighborhood or rebuild. And they likely can't rebuild to their own taste because what neo-victorian owner wants to stair out their windows at a bunch of cubes? What brutalist owner wants to look out upon whimsical scroll work?
It's the same in tshirts, underwear, socks, pants, bicycles...More people are okay with accepting some perceptual average than are willing to buy men's thongs and unicycles.