[Fomite]

I have definitely said that people can't resist a network diagram, and "people love a good map", and I'm not in ML research. There are things that appeal to people.

This tends to not manifest as "We need one of these" but "If we have one of these, lets be sure to use it."

[whatshisface]

People like witty epigraphs underneath chapter titles too, and that's great. Now imagine saying, "the difference between this paper getting accepted or rejected is the presence or absence of a network diagram..."

[intended]

The difference between getting fatigued reading one paper vs one that makes it easier to see the point you are making.

Evaluators are human.

[auggierose]

Yes. That is indeed the problem, and might be resolved sooner than later.

[Fomite]

I mean, at one point I was presenting some research next to someone with a network diagram, a map, and a phylogenetic tree and my comment was "That's going to win best poster" and I was right.