Nitpick / pet peeve: >...said that Wednesday’s vote was aimed at “[restoring] Americans’ confidence in the telephone system and put consumers back in charge of

Nitpick / pet peeve: >...said that Wednesday’s vote was aimed at “[restoring] Americans’ confidence in the telephone system and put consumers back in charge of their phones.” Why not just write >...said that the goal of Wednesday’s vote was to “restore Americans’ confidence in the telephone system and put consumers back in charge of their phones.” Why embed a quoted sentence fragment in a way that requires shenanigans with brackets when you can just as easily make a slight modification to your own sentence structure? It’s distracting, and it gives the impression that you write quickly and don’t revise.