We can go a step farther: while new variants do get released, Backgammon and Chess are fairly stable at this point. I thinkt he Crearice Commons release of D&D makes wild change to D&D-as-D&D sociological improbable.
Pretty simply a matter of material culture: injection molding was only invented around WWII, and then soon people figured out they could make dice easily in any shape. People.made dice in other shapes throughout history, but cubes are thr easiest to carve. Still the easiest to store and ship...
I can only presume you haven't had scalloped potatoes prepared properly. My goodness, it's cheese mixed with potatoes!
Thwt was a bad experience around a potato, however I am sure that potato would have been great if you subsequently cooked and ate jt.