Comment by girvo

shrugs I'm getting old these days, but to me those exclamation points helped convey the tone the writer was chasing. I read the article, then watched one of the VODs of their streaming, and what do you know: the inner tone I heard while reading the article matched how they talk!

But perhaps I'm biased: I write how I talk too, and use and abuse punctuation to attempt to mimic my own voice.