When I see pictures like that, I try to put myself in the shoes of the pilot that would be seeing that technology for the first time. Even though it looks heavy to us, was the pilot walking around slack jawed at all the incredible technology available to him? Was this the carbon fibre, glass cockpit, fly by wire bird of it's day? I bet he looked around and marvelled that there was so little wood. "What a fascinating modern age we live in!"