Ken, thanks for posting that.
I am not picking sides here, but
that paper is sort of like reading a unnecessarily-lengthy mandated electronic medical record these days - the patient is dead before I finish reading (and comprehending) it.
No kidding, Harvey. However, I'm sure that is how our academic journal articles are looked at by outsiders!
But I think it makes the point that this is not an arbitrary, non-thought out process involving coin flips, and that there is a pedagogy behind the whole thing.