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I think I was the first one to ding you for this, so let me be the first to say you're good. I'd already noticed that you changed your writing style in other posts, and that you had recognized non-productive arguing behavior in yourself and modified it; for me, these changes were early evidence that you were not crankishly locked on to an idée fixe.
Abstract - Body - Conclusions: yay! - tell me three times!
Other posters - if you have a tendency to start with stories and then ramble, please take note.
Well, sometimes there are downsides to this approach...
If you have a captive audience, yes.
Having an abstract is useful when your audience is free to wander off - and probably will. That is often an accurate assumption in academic circles or on the internet.