eg. in 2010 Tim BL specifically recommended *against* representing linked data as a graph using the standard "normal users" argument, but did they like, try that first... The rest of this document argues in favor of tree representations (which are just a constrained graph layout) but the whole thrust of the argument is hiding the graph structure rather than making it manageable to interact with
https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TabulatorGoals.html