“They” again? “They” sure get around. What do we really need diversity for anyway? No one needs to have more than one choice of food, political party, toothpaste...
Again, one might surmise that 50 thousand years ago another melanin challenged group of Africans beat feet out of the dark continent.
Then, in the 1990s, it was applied to demographics -- and the word took off. Suddenly, the word appeared everywhere, in all articles, on every subject.
I saw an article on a new park opening. A typical headline, 30 years ago, would have been "City Opens New Park." Instead the headline was "New Park Attracts a Diversity of People."
The word is being injected into everything because it's associated with demographic diversity, so even when we talk about a store offering a diversity of products, it creates a subconscious sense that (demographic) diversity is good and necessary.
For that same reason, the use of the word is a form of virtue signaling. Using it, in any contexts, signals "I am a good person because I love demographic diversity."