The math pages on Wikipedia value correctness above lay comprehensibility. It's easy to understand how this happens: a learned mathematician points out that a s

The math pages on Wikipedia value correctness above lay comprehensibility. It's easy to understand how this happens: a learned mathematician points out that a simplification for the purposes of making an explanation more approachable is not actually correct, so the explanation gets desimplified... and repeat ad absurdum until most math pages on Wikipedia cater primarily to experts and are too advanced for a good fraction of the audience.