Personally, I found your highlighting of that paragraph in particular useful, and believe the piece is stronger now that I’ve removed it, and would not mind if you went into more detail. This is a tangent/digression, but it’s a relevant one, so as long as it’s headlined as such I don’t think it’s distracting.
(This is actually one of my private “rules of engagement” and something I’ve got an essay in the works about: changes-of-topic are exhausting when they’re not self-aware about being changes-of-topic, but if they’re clearly identified then that cost goes way down.)
Personally, I found your highlighting of that paragraph in particular useful, and believe the piece is stronger now that I’ve removed it, and would not mind if you went into more detail. This is a tangent/digression, but it’s a relevant one, so as long as it’s headlined as such I don’t think it’s distracting.
(This is actually one of my private “rules of engagement” and something I’ve got an essay in the works about: changes-of-topic are exhausting when they’re not self-aware about being changes-of-topic, but if they’re clearly identified then that cost goes way down.)