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I think these are the strongest reasons you've raised that we might want to deviate from pure Bayesianism in practice. We usually think of these (computation and understandability-by-humans) as irritating side issues, to be glossed over and mostly considered after we've made our decision about which algorithm to use. But in practice they often dominate all other considerations, so it would be nice to find a way to rigorously integrate these two desiderata with the others that underpin Bayesianism.