Comment by ilitirit

Probably not universally true, but good writing is a skill regardless.

And maybe they are "too long" in the same way that Lean proofs are "too long"? I have no idea - I don't read either very often.

However, often I don't care how verbose a piece is if it can hold my interest. For example, the late Umberto Eco wrote some of my favourite pieces. He was a philosopher (among other things), and many of them - notably of the "post-modern" - are known to be particularly verbose.

Here's a particularly relevant one: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/