At some point you have to accept that the likelihood of something you wrote is read increases if you make it entertaining even if just a tiny bit, yes even acad

At some point you have to accept that the likelihood of something you wrote is read increases if you make it entertaining even if just a tiny bit, yes even academics fall for this trick, is usually not concious but academics are humans too and some tricks like that help increase the likelyhood to grab their attention, even subjects that they already strongly believe are interesting to them.