Well, occasionally it is. There are a few pioneers like Wright and van der Rohe whose fame is well-deserved, and then hoards of half-conscious imitators shouting "let's make Facebook for, uh... iguana owners!". But I suppose that makes it just like anything else in life.
"The focus of Hacker News is going to be anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes a lot more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." -pg
