If you evalutate how difficult/effort is poured into the entries, then some of the past votes definitely didn't follow that logic (i'm not talking about you, me or anyone in specific).
That's a valid point that i do support when a signature which is hard to pull off is shown, valuing the difficulty over the appearance.
In this regard, what i see is a background image, some C4Ds, one render, more C4Ds to cover some parts of the render and the mpgh tag (which i actually forgot to include, woops).
I can't properly distinguish the effort poured into the creation into the image and while i do agree it's the 'least lazy' (with mine being proudly the laziest ;D) i don't think it deserves
my vote over some other images that ultimately look better.
That said, i do agree with your point of view and the fact that our conclusions differ is excatly why this voting thread exists.