Yes. Screenshots or examples, broad dependencies or used platform/technology should be the first things to show. It's incredible how far down they are buried many times. It's like they want potential users to give up before figuring out if it's a useful thing or not.
This is someone's private project for their own amusement. It's clearly not in a state where it would be "useful" to "users". Nor is it meant to be. At the moment it's meant for compiler geeks to look at.
Not every readme is a sales pitch for Enterprise Quality(tm) software.