It's the autism. And I say that endearingly. I'm an engineer who probably likes trains way too much. I intentionally pointed out the STEM-esque responses of pe

It's the autism. And I say that endearingly. I'm an engineer who probably likes trains way too much. I intentionally pointed out the STEM-esque responses of pedantic correction as a symptom of a disciplinary blind spot: technically correct nitpicking that misses the forest for the trees, a tendency to atomize arguments and lose the structural point, and that tendency is a weakness, not a strength. There's also a lack of historical training to contextualize their own objection. That's also why I brought up Devereaux as an authority hammer: the actual domain experts consider those objections and dismiss it.