[urthor]

The analogy doesn't hold up.

Commits have a more fixed size.

Formal logic cannot be reduced in character count too far, at least without making it unintelligible (fear the day Alex the intern wheels out Unicode emoji variables).

Spreading the commits out has a purpose.

Academic papers could be vastly compressed to reduce cognitive load.

Brevity and intelligibility however is not a KPI. Self aggrandisement is.