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I agree that it is a design choice, but it obfuscates the scale and indirectly the significance of the numbers used so I generally find it a bad choice. Here's the same graph with axes to zero:

R^2 is 0,44 with n=7 but drops to 0,10 when you leave out the Q1 2016 outlier.