You should be specific about who you’re calling out. I’m sure this is good advice for journalists making infographics for the public, but it isn’t for scientist

You should be specific about who you’re calling out. I’m sure this is good advice for journalists making infographics for the public, but it isn’t for scientists talking to other scientists. I design my plots for readability and in the process regularly break every rule you listed here, because I trust my audience (other scientists) to understand how to read axes. Yes, it might be confusing to somebody who doesn’t read graphs with axes that often, but if I optimized my papers for their convenience, they would all have to be 100 pages long.