[DHaldane]

Schematics ended up being a hard requirement, so we put in the work to generate good ones automatically and the tools for EEs to adjust the aesthetics without ruining the correctness of the design.

You are right that the schematic becomes visualization/documentation here - it's not necessary to generate, because the only information it technically provides is a netlist which we already have from code.

But it's needed documentation. In practice it's helpful to use as you debug your design code.