Because a crayon-scribble filter, any type of smoothing or the (on topic) vector filter can lead to unintended ugliness in various cases (as seen a couple of posts above).
The dot-matrix approach cant't. It can even deal with dithering without problems. It's all still a matter of taste ofc..
Upscaling Retro 8-Bit Pixel Art To Vector Graphics
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