I've seen this sentiment so much in the past month that it's starting to make me worried that the labs will silently make this the default output to satisfy users. I do recognize the outputs can be so information-dense that it strains reading for many but they absolutely aren't nonsense or mere affectation. What people are asking for now amounts to asking for less intelligence per token only a few months after everyone was demanding more intelligence per token.
Yeah I worry about this too. I have a remote agent that writes PRs for my job, and at the request of other devs I implemented a simplified writing skill that does the technical english thing mentioned elsewhere in these comments. It's definitely easier to read and the other devs seem to like it, so I'm okay with keeping it, but I haven't changed my personal claude settings because I never had a problem with the density of the output myself. Probably a side effect from having a multi-disciplinary background.
