Limited Dashboard Collection

I was wondering if people were making good use of the Dashboard Collection (yellow components).  The demo protocols are very attractive and have cool animation effects, like the bubble chart demo below:
 


To me it feels like the philosophical underpinnings of this collection are extremely different than that of the Reporting collection... Unlike the Reporting Collection, the number of components that generate visible elements is quite small, and the ones that do exist have very few parameters.  (Side note, the Dashboard Collection documentation is Extremely sparce - 5 pages of content versus > 200 pages on the Reporting Collection).  Instead, the Dashboard collection seems to primarily provide low level control over HTML that gets generated. So instead of having a ListBox component, you create