I think the phrase "it’d be much better as five much smaller articles" can be interpreted in two ways: 1) "I would prefer ..." 2) "It would be better ..." Yo

I think the phrase "it’d be much better as five much smaller articles" can be interpreted in two ways: 1) "I would prefer ..." 2) "It would be better ..." You can be in the habit of giving people the benefit of the doubt, that when they say "A is a better coffee than B" they are merely expressing an opinion, because you think it's too tedious to say "For my taste" before each opinion. But I hope you see how the phrase literally is "It would be better" as if there is an (obvious implicit) standard by which we can all agree to judge things, and from that standard, "it would be better if".