Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1474707-20160905170321/@comment-24473195-20160905181811

Acer4666 wrote: In what way would it defeat their purpose? They have 3 purposes ( see Help:Infobox), the primary purpose is to make them appear properly on mobile, the secondary purpose is to actually be able to identify them, and last but not least to make them user friendly for editors, and readers.

Using the normal tags, you can edit the infobox using the builder, but if you start mixing them with parser functions, that will no longer be possible. Secondly, they will become as cumbersome to use as the old Classic infobox because of the mix of templates, parser functions and magic words.