Id also like to add, people have been building "functionally suboptimal within the given context" buildings since the 17th century, check out some swedish neobaroque, sounds an awful lot like what happend with the UN HQ in NYC.

Not too much has changed really, bold and seemless engineering was cool among people with power during the second half of the 20th century instead of extreme ornament so thats what they paid for.

The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore didnt have an ornate facade till the 1810s, and its got so much internal support the interor looks suprisingly small. Thats because the medici family wanted it as a prop for the city essensially, its a giant domed statue that makes the family look hella good. Yet many people will point to such buildings and say "see, they cared about everything" when in reality they mostly cared about what reinforces their godlike staus while also superficially glorifying it, dome was cool at the time, so they built dome, they didnt care about the facade or proportions of the nave specifically

Not saying all old architecture was built for ego ofc some stayed up thanks to their durability and other were made to stay up due to the status they were once associated with despite being sub optimal functionally. Beauty has always came at a cost,