This is a good defense of it, but as a native English speaker I still found the sentence jarring. It’s possible that my sensitivity to this kind of error (or c

This is a good defense of it, but as a native English speaker I still found the sentence jarring. It’s possible that my sensitivity to this kind of error (or causal register, if you prefer) is due to experience learning other languages that don’t have articles like those in English. I doubt it, though. Many others probably also find sentences stripped of articles as jarring, and that’s useful for anyone learning English to know. As I learner, I generally want it to be understood by speakers of the language as easily and with as little friction as possible.