It's a weird feeling, having my prose reviewed as if they were written by a machine. "Move the needle" is a scar from my time at Google. Nitty-gritty is an arte

It's a weird feeling, having my prose reviewed as if they were written by a machine. "Move the needle" is a scar from my time at Google. Nitty-gritty is an artefact of all the iteration I did on that paragraph; the original was far too technical to justify its place in a little writeup. "To top it all off" was just how I chose to set a tone of wrapping up after a list that was at least as exhausting to write as it seems to be to read. And just for the record, multiple people from my team reviewed this, so if it turns out we lack your proclivity for good English style or your journalistic rigor and standards for what's ready to publish, it wasn't for a lack of "a few iterations." I suppose it would have been good of me to give my team more time with the draft; a good chunk of what you cited was a byproduct of me hastily responding to their comments.