[apgwoz]

Can text be put on a screen? And can you take a picture of it when it is? Well, you might have a screenshot of text.

[PurpleRamen]

That wasn't done here.

[DonHopkins]

How does a text representation of an Emacs screen snapshot look any better than a pixel representation of that same screen snapshot? It's much more flexible, more compact, and qualitatively better, since you can change the font size, and it's still crisp, and you can even copy and paste the text.

It makes perfect sense to use compact flexible text instead of a fatter fixed resolution image to screen shot Emacs.