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> If the wad of lines is too dense to follow without confusion, what
> good is it?

If the wad of lines is too dense to follow, you've failed as a
designer.  I've seen the dense wad of lines.  I've seen engineers dump
a design and start from scratch because it was "just a wad of dense
lines" and come up with something much more understandable but just as
complex.

> > Because not everyone wants to do things your way.
> 
> You're pushing graphics, but then you want tables in gschem, a
> graphics tool. Make up your mind.

You're playing with semantics to argue your point.  I've made up my
mind - I want small tables of related information on the same page as
the symbolic information, just like others might want text blocks,
images, simulation outputs, test data, pin numbers, or other relevant
information.

It's not about graphics vs text.  It's about putting related useful
information in a form that conveys design intent.