I agree with everything you said and can confirm that in our (translational vascular bio) lab the bulk of effort spent on paper drafting was concerned with crea

I agree with everything you said and can confirm that in our (translational vascular bio) lab the bulk of effort spent on paper drafting was concerned with creation of high quality figures. Many scientists (myself included), will read a paper abstract and then head straight for the figures as they usually contain the highest density of data for the reader.