This implementation makes a lot of sense if you think about the ability to support variable amount of screens without the need of complex routing and addressing.
It also has increased reliability where one failure doesn’t break the whole system.
As for the need of it - well, that’s “slurp” they try to sell some cold sugar to impulsive people who like flashy things. That implies animations on the screen and being “not boring”.
The fact that they changed to screens by itself means that backlit plastic label was doing poorer job than this abomination.
This implementation makes a lot of sense if you think about the ability to support variable amount of screens without the need of complex routing and addressing.
It also has increased reliability where one failure doesn’t break the whole system.
As for the need of it - well, that’s “slurp” they try to sell some cold sugar to impulsive people who like flashy things. That implies animations on the screen and being “not boring”.
The fact that they changed to screens by itself means that backlit plastic label was doing poorer job than this abomination.