At least for the progressive house/trance, melodic techno and synthwave genres.

The rolling bass pattern has been used for ages. There are millions of uplifting trance tunes with this pattern, and when the genre got old, the rolling bass never went away. Modern techno/melodic techno producers use the same rolling bass patterns all the time.. so it feels incredibly overused.

When I am working on a track, and try to use some different kind of bass sound, by browsing hundreds of samples to make it sit in my mix right and work well with all the other genres, I always find myself returning to the old good rolling bass and it always works just fine with almost any sample.. and the most interesting thing is that it always sound new, unique and interesting even though there are trillions of songs with the same bass pattern.

Why is that?