They were minor edits for brevity, just the removal of one or two adjectives and conjunctions. I.e., they were the types of things that if I were writing a pap

They were minor edits for brevity, just the removal of one or two adjectives and conjunctions. I.e., they were the types of things that if I were writing a paper and a draft reviewer suggested removing them, I would have said "ok". But that's not the point.