An Internet page should be as informative as possible in text mode. Also, many, like me, do not have the compute-power for graphically heavy, bloated pages where a large file bit map is used where a few lines of HTML would be more efficient and informative. Illustrations have their use in communications. I like the ability to manage my own stacks and queues. Pages wider than the browsers window.
Some people run other processes in addition to the browser.
Frequently, I test my site's pages with a 25MHz 80486DX ISA computer. My messages are best communicated primarily with words. Words can be read and they can be repeated. Words mean things. Words can be thought about and mused over.