Good UX abstractions out perform bad ones, which means they endure, are copied, and eventually become the implied standard UX… some examples of this are; the hamburger menu, tiny icons and auto-scroll for streaming text

I really hope streamed text doesn’t outperform other design patterns in places where it doesn’t make sense.

> Good UX abstractions out perform bad ones

And then get get every precision input being represented by a slider versus text box.

Doesn't necessarily have to be good. Can also propagate and become "standardised" if it's the easiest, most convenient, most well documented way. Eg. Twitter Bootstrap.