system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is vanilla considered the "neutral" or "natural" ice cream flavour?
gpt
It was so good, so versatile and so available that it became boring.  It was overexposed, overdone and copied poorly so often and for so long that the general population forgot how good it really is when done well.  

It got buried under a mountain of its own success.