OP,
I agree! “Showcase” photos are not required. This is a bunch of guys into high end audio… virtually all our systems are “under construction”. This is not the Ladies Home Journal. It is so helpful to those receiving or giving advice.
If you ask a question, the answer is going to be a shot in the dark because half the time the answer might be the glass doors behind your speakers, when the question is about cables. Without knowing the whole picture and all the components, it is really hard.
From the other side, if you are giving advice… it helps provide a good idea where you are coming from. If I have a wall of speakers and subwoofers with a few thousand watts of amplification vs a carefully set up set of elegant stand mounted speakers with tube monoblocks… these are people with very different values. Really helps the people listening to you figure out where you are coming from.