Strip out the "text" in your code and just leave the syntax - we'll see how readable that is.

Well, that would certainly demonstrate the value of the text aspect of the code...

Exactly. A graphical representation and a syntactic representation of code will both have text in them. They just have different syntax for equivalent structure.

You seem to be conflating visual programming languages/environments with pictography.

They are not about that.

I am suggesting that your concept of a visual language is just an enhanced presentation of one that is fundamentally textual.

And I'm suggesting the keyword is "enhanced".

Movies are fundamentally photography too.

The fact that you have to stretch for that analogy, rather than name a visual language that offers more than just an incremental improvement to the process of reading text, suggests that the alleged power of visual programming is mostly hypothetical at this point.

Confirmation bias much?

I see that you have given up on any attempt at a factual argument.