Text vs pictures.
Fewer people will read a text.
When this becomes SOP nobody will notice.
But the bulk of the pictures will be seen right after the plane crashes and before they’ve had a chance to paint over. So you have images of your plane and stories about it going down going out all over the world and then you resurrect the specter by repainting and making it a story again. The damage had already been done and the images were already out.