There’s certainly a need for a new visual idiom here.
I can’t remember now if it was the wondrous, seminal Need To Know or the very different but also sublime b3ta.com, but one of my fave web places used to regularly showcase and celebrate the most ridiculous and cliched examples of the “hooded figure crouched over keyboard while neon dollar signs stream into a clip-art bank” genre. It’s a dangerous series of tubes out there!
