Originally Posted by
Stadjer
Like the result of modern methods for mechanically optimized designs influences the designers taste in good design, or are they actually limited in their freedom to make things beautiful by the tools used?
Neither.
There is in no way a design rockstar like Ives, Bangle, Newson, Starck, etc designing production bikes. Maybe one-offs at best. And while the frame designs are mechanically optimized, there is freedom for non-functional design in every frame made today. So the pure form follows function for today's bikes is pure hooey.
As for a particular tool not giving the "freedom" for one person on the internet does not make it so industry wide. Not even close.
Nope. It is really simple to what's driving today's bike design. The customer.