[gonehome]

I guess I don’t agree.

I’d be willing to bet that simpler is generally easier to understand than complex. Maybe some exceptions exist, but I’d suspect they’d be outliers.

[mikeash]

How much do you suppose a person would get out of Up Goer Five if they didn’t already know about Apollo and such?

[gonehome]

That’s fair - at the extreme end it is probably harder to understand.

Though going back to the first comment it’s also not how people talk.