I'm fairly certain that most of my opening salvos in evaluating the quality of someone's charts come to me from people regurgitating Huff's book.
I'd put it in a class with Fred Brooks; dead obvious, but somehow needing to be constantly re-explained to a new group of people (or the same people at a later date).
There's a great book about this, Everything is Obvious (Once You Know The Answer) about how many scientific studies come up with obvious-seeming findings, but if they'd found the opposite, that would have seemed obvious to us too..
I'd put it in a class with Fred Brooks; dead obvious, but somehow needing to be constantly re-explained to a new group of people (or the same people at a later date).