I'm always surprised at how much these articles play up the surprise factor of analyses like these. Are the results actually surprising to anyone in the field?

I'm always surprised at how much these articles play up the surprise factor of analyses like these. Are the results actually surprising to anyone in the field? It's a cool visualization and this represents an improvement over our older dataset. But not a shocking revelation. It's fine to play up the conventional wisdom angle, but I don't like the pretense that the scientists themselves are surprised that eukaryotes amount to a tiny fraction of the diversity of life on earth.