Xkcd: Change in Slope (xkcd.com)

Who even comes up with this stuff

there definitely are some areas in software-land where graphing data and/or directly eyeballing it genuinely helps to spot patterns where statistical methods might be cumbersome/tricky/otherwise annoying, like log analysis[1]

[1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/07/tips-for-analyzing-logs/