Comment by Cthulhu_

It makes sense too when you fully understand your audience isn't exclusively English; expressions will be more difficult to read for ESL, and difficult if not impossible to translate to a non-English language. And the docs site is available in 8 different languages.

With translation tools (from the past... 3 decades, starting with Babelfish) and modern-day documentation processing / retrieval tools (LLMs), simplicity, clarity and consistency are even more important. But it's timeless advice.