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Which instances of "obvious" in the text felt non-obvious to you?
It doesn't matter if they felt obvious or non-obvious. Obviousness is not justification, it is an opinion about its accessibility. To be fair to you, I am mostly annoyed by that word alone. I could be way off the mark here in terms of common opinion.
You're not the only one annoyed by that word.
As my first real analysis professor was fond of saying, "If it's obvious, prove it!"
Indeed. When I was a student, I often found myself telling my classmates in math classes, "Just because it is obvious does not mean it is true." It was amazing how many "obvious" conclusions we were able to disprove.