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Spider ball pythons can be easily identified by their drippy minimalistic patterns, they are incredibly striking animals and its easy to see why they are sought after.

The Spider Ball Python morph causes an extreme neurological defect that is intrinsically tied to the phenotypic manifestation of the spider gene and how it affects neurological development.

The defect essentially causes them to be unable to balance themselves or tell up from down.

This can causes minor head swaying or wobbling, which can cause the snake to have difficulty feeding and navigating its enclosure but overall does not impact their quality of life. This is however a rarity.

Most often though, the wobble is extreme, causing the snake to corkscrew or flip upside down because it has no sense of balance. These animals are entirely unable to feed or navigate their enclosures.

The spider wobble appears at birth, though the severity increases over the lifetime of the animal and manifests most extremely in recently bred females.

These animal have extremely poor quality of life and over half of them must be euthanized on hatching because they will fail to thrive.

All of this is common knowledge within the herpetological community.

Continuing to breed and support the breeding of these animals is incredibly inhumane.

There is no excuse.

This is an excellent question, and you've pretty much got it! The only thing is not all minimalistic patterns in BPs are spider.

As someone else has mentioned pinstripe can look very similar.

Here is Spider & Normal side by side

This one down here is a Pinstripe