Honest question: do you think this article would be worse off without that horrendous image at the start? In other words, was it necessary for the author to add

Honest question: do you think this article would be worse off without that horrendous image at the start? In other words, was it necessary for the author to add a horror-movie drawing of a hellish hospital within a distorted reality full of misshapen demons in order to make their point?