I very much disagree. There are use case such as weather reporting, electronic medical report summarisation, etc. That make more sense as a textual representation than bundles of graphs and tables. In fact textual summarisation has been shown to lead to better decision making[1].
Good data-to-text NLG applications not only summarise data but they also can provides insight into causal relations of why events occurred by leveraging domain knowledge.
Good data-to-text NLG applications not only summarise data but they also can provides insight into causal relations of why events occurred by leveraging domain knowledge.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656014/