Can you kill the type?

I found this cool coin



And you can read about how it was made HERE.

After I read, this part stood out to me.

"In order to achieve the image I developed my own single-line font system. I let the line width change within the same character in order to evoke an underlying picture:"

Building on the previous post. Do you think this is an abuse of type?

I thought the Idea of a 'single-line font system' sounded very cool, but then I look close and I got the 'feeling' the type lost all its integrity. It is almost no longer and art but a systematic process that a machine would easily replace the talent and skill of a designer. Personally after I got over the 'oh that is awesome', it looked like a pen exploded and was making blotches all over.

Do you think the integrity of type was destroyed?