Hmm. The books I put up here are frequently criticised for focusing on pedagogy at the expense of rigor. So I'm not sure what to say to that.
Overall I agree that too much of mathematics is obfuscated. Whether that's because it makes the author sound smart or because excellent prose isn't a big timesaver for a reader who has to grapple with a complex proof anyway I don't know. Could be both.
But I will reiterate is what I said above: deeply understanding an unfamiliar result or method often is irreducibly hard work that simply must be ground through. That's no reason to make simple things needlessly hard but when it's time to work through something tricky, well, people should expect to spend some time on it. Importantly, they should not feel stupid or bad at math when they have to do so, which I think is probably the thing that loses us the most mathematics besides obfuscated intro calculus.
Overall I agree that too much of mathematics is obfuscated. Whether that's because it makes the author sound smart or because excellent prose isn't a big timesaver for a reader who has to grapple with a complex proof anyway I don't know. Could be both.
But I will reiterate is what I said above: deeply understanding an unfamiliar result or method often is irreducibly hard work that simply must be ground through. That's no reason to make simple things needlessly hard but when it's time to work through something tricky, well, people should expect to spend some time on it. Importantly, they should not feel stupid or bad at math when they have to do so, which I think is probably the thing that loses us the most mathematics besides obfuscated intro calculus.