Comment by curtisblaine

Immediate feedback informs the visual language in order to convey meaning in a easier way to a larger public. You may know what an eventually consistent system is, but many users don't, and they want visual information abstracted to something they can understand. It's reassuring.

Also, not everything can be reduced to static forms. Charts with knobs, drag and drop interfaces, interactive diagrams are all useful visual aids that you would like to erase because... they don't conform with your naive views on how things should look like?