Not Spaghetti

I'd suggest that this fits the normal S-curve of effort versus reward:

X: effort
Y: benefits

1) First, if very little effort is put into the communication part, an article may not communicate very well, and it's almostt not worth doing.

2) Then, as X increases, there is an inflection period improvements are really worthwhile.
[This is a good place to be, with the distance up being traded off versus the cost.]

3) Finally, there is a second inflection point, where there are diminishing returns, and one is just polishing for no benefit. [One rarely wants to go beyond that second inflection.]

I've certainly seen papers at all positions, including ones where I thought:

"There might be something good in here, but it just takes too much work to tell"

and at the other extreme, people using complex 3D-graphics to show something trivial.