User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-1295676-20150821232411/@comment-5558012-20150822021735

There's visual gain. I posted this a while ago after I finished converting all of my infoboxes because of how their visual appeal on mobile improved. With the old infoboxes, a data entry was taking up several lines on mobile (which wasn't the case on larger screens), and with the new infoboxes, what was previously broken on multiple lines displayed neatly on one line.