Oh man, so much this. I feel like much of the differences that show up between how much different groups respect the writing of different authors comes down to differences in what is an acceptable justification to provide for how you know something and how you came to know it. For examples, one of the things I hated about working as a mathematician was that publications explicitly want you to cut out most of the explanation of how you figured something out and just stick to the minimum necessary description. There’s something elegant about doing that, but it also works against helping people develop their mathematical intuitions such that they can follow after you or know why what you’re doing might matter.
Oh man, so much this. I feel like much of the differences that show up between how much different groups respect the writing of different authors comes down to differences in what is an acceptable justification to provide for how you know something and how you came to know it. For examples, one of the things I hated about working as a mathematician was that publications explicitly want you to cut out most of the explanation of how you figured something out and just stick to the minimum necessary description. There’s something elegant about doing that, but it also works against helping people develop their mathematical intuitions such that they can follow after you or know why what you’re doing might matter.