On the left we have a picture of ruins of an ancient city, and on the right we have a picture of a computer motherboard....
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Ugh, reaching...
It is completely rational to arrange things in a logical manner.
Electronic elements and connections are arranged in order to minimize the size and therefore the cost of the board.
Cities (especially back then) were arranged in order to minimize the distance between the various buildings because of walking distances.
This ^
Electrical circuits don’t HAVE to look like this. There’s nothing special about the placement of electrical circuits on silicon chips other than it’s near orderly to do so in a manner such as this. A disorganized chip would work just as well, it would just be harder to recreate or diagnose issues.
And a disorganized board wastes a lot of resources in when you have a tangle of unnecessary extra wiring and traces snaking around one another. Also with modern high-speed circuits that extra length in the electrical path slows down the signal significantly.
You should see the radio I built using point to point wiring, as it was built using discrete components (capacitors, resistors, coils, and vacuum tubes).
A circuit diagram is the key to diagnosing problems, no matter how the circuit is physically laid out.