I guess this ties in with the rise of minimalism and the end of creativity in design in general.
I hate how every Super Bowl logo is so boring now. It’s just a few chrome Roman numerals with the trophy in the middle. They tried putting the stadium or the host city’s skyline in the background for a few years, but now it’s literally just the fucking numbers and the trophy. Every fucking year. Super Bowl logos used to look cool. They used to make a unique logo each year. Someone put in actual creative effort to make those logos. Now they just copy-and-paste the same boring corporate bullshit into the next year’s logo, and probably get paid millions of dollars to do it.
Minimalism delenda est.
Design goes in trends just like any other kind of fashion.
Yes the last few have been REMARKABLY similar, but also look at the logos for 17 to 27 - they're all just basic variations on a theme that you can see very very slowly evolving over time. Blue and red for a decade, then yellows got brought in for a few years, the yellow slowly morphs to orange, etc etc.
And also we're already starting to see it evolve again - 51, 52 and 53 are all literally the same, that's true, but 54 and now 55 have tried something new with that theme, and I'm sure 56 will be even more different.
And honestly there's been way more variation from the Owl than there has been from wrestlemania and you'd THINK that those would be way more creative!