Well, it's hardly endless in my opinion. If we look to architecture, ornamentation had become entrenched in the way we build for 2000 years or more, then along came Modernism to wash it all away, which pretty much brought the debate to an end.
There have been little cycles and evolutions in the interim and some people like to pursue previous ideas e.g. Building Classically, but this largely still forms the basis of all of design i.e. form follows function.
Well, it's hardly endless in my opinion. If we look to architecture, ornamentation had become entrenched in the way we build for 2000 years or more, then along came Modernism to wash it all away, which pretty much brought the debate to an end.
There have been little cycles and evolutions in the interim and some people like to pursue previous ideas e.g. Building Classically, but this largely still forms the basis of all of design i.e. form follows function.