Good point. One thing I can think of as someone who has been attracted to models and miniatures of all kinds since a young age, is that the canopy adds that satisfying (and illusional) hint that if one were really small, one could crawl in that little airplane and ride around in it. It's for this reason (the wish for realism) that I find myself wishing for a pattern plane I could buy that has wing & stabilizer root fairings.