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Ultimately it would be impossible to come up with these greatly simplified explanations without the complexities and notation taught in the pedagogy you are dismissing.

Granted though, as students, the gifted ones often already have this picture in their mind, so the intuition is obvious. So to bring those less gifted or familiar with a topic up to speed, things like this make a ton of sense.



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