Being attached to a sorcery instead of a creature just helps matters here for blue, where you often care about non-permanents
Radiant Lotus The Lotus name, as well as the Mox name in MTG, are very prestigious, and people expect Radiant Lotus to be broken in some way
The game plan rewards you for going wide with Elves early, since a board full of mana dorks and cheap bodies turns every Voja swing into a massive team-wide pump
Sacrificing Sakura-Tribe Elder will not only get a land, it will also trigger Ygra to put two +1/+1 counters on it
This made the scheme far more impactful when a player used it at the time, but it doesn't really hold up as well today for that "wow" factor that it ought to have commanded back in the 2010's
No matter the outcome, Commander gives players the tools to express themselves through strategy, skill, and a whole lot of deck building fun