But couldn't that mean that parts of text/numbers will disappear or darken within the letter or number itself? For example, looking at the elapsed/remaining numbers, the top pixel, one-right from center, is lit for every number that is showed. Using your idea as I see it, that pixel would blank out before those around it.
I totally agree that this logic would be good for the line in info:track, and the various slashes and colons on the different displays, but it would just make the non-moving portions of the text look "wacky".