Bobble:



Detail is fine if it does something. Here (pulled from Wikipedia), all of the rivets, all of the plates, and all of the frame under the fabric parts (the flaps) are shown. The problem with what you were doing before was that it was mostly extraneous detail that served absolutely no function and didn't even make sense in the context of both what was shown and what was described.

So yes, what you have now is vastly better than what you started with.