Having written other things that are popular doesn't answer to the OP's comment nuanced arguments are a good and helpful thing. PG doesn't pattern match as suc

Having written other things that are popular doesn't answer to the OP's comment nuanced arguments are a good and helpful thing. PG doesn't pattern match as such because other people are blowhards. He's actually arrogant. Which is fine! He's been very successful enough times that it seems unlikely to be coïncidence. But he also writes essays that are complete whiffs. It's not an ego thing by the reader. There are many examples of no nuance where there is actually a hell of a lot of nuance in the subject at hand. So people quote the essays or act on them blindly because they rely on them as exhaustive when I don't think that that is the case or his actual intention.