Fr I was about to say the same thing. Aside from better hardware and more layers the technology really hasn’t changed from this level to begin with.
We’ve learned a little about what emergent behavior and trends look like in machine learning algorithms when graphed, though: it becomes more and more convergent, as if it forms its own little confirmation bias it will produce more and more samey results.
My buddy did his first dissertation in the UK and they didn’t give him any format suggestions or guidelines, but they still criticized him for choosing APA IMRaD.