I made a 8kB memory with RGB display and printed out color gradients with those.
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I, myself, like making my wires all neat. In fact, I enable snap to grid while grid is shown so I don't have to hold down control. Yes, it does take much longer than just going straight from the output of one chip to the input of another chip, but the benefit is that it's clean and readable (and much easier to debug if something were to go wrong).