I think this is related to why images and memes are, by far, the most popular submissions on reddit: they are simply easier and faster to understand. It doesn'

I think this is related to why images and memes are, by far, the most popular submissions on reddit: they are simply easier and faster to understand. It doesn't mean that they are necessarily better, but the time spent on understanding them are at a complete minimum. You don't even need to be a technical person to get a grasp of why the spark graphs do. The challenge of a private business is having to strike a balance between "important" and "intelligible".