[jorleif]

I think the process of peer review often causes papers to be optimized for being hard to critique rather than easy to understand. I have myself participated in writing papers where we decided to leave out some non-crucial but very useful detail just because it opens up too many questions and opportunities for critique.

[nly]

So "let's keep the source code closed so nobody can see how awful we are and just show off our wonderful working program"

[pseut]

The process of peer review also optimizes papers to be shorter than intended.

[j2kun]

Is this in mathematics or another field?