Because reflowing 1000 words is a lot simpler that designing a general method for conveying your message on any given aspect ratio, resolution and size. Becaus

Because reflowing 1000 words is a lot simpler that designing a general method for conveying your message on any given aspect ratio, resolution and size. Because text is a lot more portable across platforms. Because interacting with text is a lot easier to automate. And extracting information from text automatically is easy whilst extracting it automatically from a picture is very difficult. GUIs are great for discoverability, and complex long ineractive sessions. But they also have downsides.