> Sorry for the rant, you're just responding to a demand. It's a demand I'd rather see met through educating better data visualisation than through prettier gauges.

If there is demand it's probably good to respond to it as it is. There is no need to fucking educate propaganda like you said about skeumorphism or no-skeuomorphism.

Besides can you give one example of any software product that is not skeuomorphic? There is none to begin with. So please stop using this bullshit cultural kool-aid to troll and exclude designs that probably don't suit your elitism.