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> Not at all. At the top level of a complicated board you get an
> incomprehensible wad of lines if you try to diagram it. A table can
> be much more useful.

Why do people insist on telling me I'm wrong about how *I* do *my*
tasks?  I'm not an idiot and I've done this before.  I don't want a
table of connections.  I want something that tells me how the board
functions, because I'm not the original designer.

> But why complicate the tool, when the toolkit approach solves this
> without the complication?

Because not everyone wants to do things your way.  *I* prefer to put
the hidden connections and decoupling caps near the chips they affect.
Others prefer to put all those on a separate page, or omit them
completely.