It gives you a wrong perspective, especially if you are distracted, on model capabilities: Fable 5.1 is not 30% better than Sol, but is the very first impression you get when you look at the first graph.
If I'm not wrong OAI tried a similar trick when GPT5 was announced ... they have been criticized a lot.
> It gives you a wrong perspective, especially if you are distracted, on model capabilities
Only if you aren't schooled in reading graphs. It's a given that you always have to look at the axes when interpreting a graph.
How exactly would you zoom into a section of a graph and just show that section?