Design patterns aren't necessarily successful because they're inherently good or correct but because users grow accustomed to them. Other apps adopt established design patterns, further cementing them in our digital dialectic.

A design pattern usually takes shape based on related patterns humans understand. Deviating from established patterns can create user experience issues, even if the new pattern is objectively better. However, merely repurposing existing UI components fails to evolve our digital world. Many design patterns actively cause harm cognitively and spiritually but are difficult to uproot because they're so woven into the fabric of our digital landscape. Software engineers and designers unknowingly perpetuate this harm by unthinkingly copying existing interaction and presentation patterns for speed or consistency.
The wheel has a universal shape and function that overtakes style or subjective psychology. Physics underpins its form. Designing UI isn't as objective because human interaction is based on a user's prior understanding of form to achieve an end. A design pattern, component, or flow can take any shape. Its visual construction relies on human consciousness rather than the physics of the natural world.