User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-1295676-20150821232411/@comment-24473195-20150823094105

My point was that they look better than they did before. If one considers all mobile infoboxes throughout all wikis. In fact even wikipedia has done some work to improve them.

Whether they will be improved further or not depends on wikia interest and resources. But this is just one of many steps they are taking to improve the infoboxes.

One important point is that on mobile devices the bandwidth and processing power is generally limited. So most sites generally strip or reduce the css and js usage to make to improve performance and reduce/improve visuals. A heavy website can conceivably also drain the battery much faster.

It is a necessary tradeoff.