This lowers my expectation of you getting around to a sensible recommendation.

This sort of thing is common on Less Wrong, and I don't mean to single you out (you're behaving within a cultural context that you didn't create). But what you're saying here, connotatively, doesn't make any sense.

You're implicitly adopting the premise that it's my responsibility to convince you of something, as though you were a judge and I was a lawyer. The actual situation is that I have many more orders of magnitude of knowledge about the subject than you do, there are millions of people who I could be helping, and if helping you specifically understand isn't yielding high marginal returns, then I shouldn't waste my time interacting with you, because it takes away time from other people who would benefit. It's as though I were a selective college and you were sending me an application essay about why my offerings aren't valuable. The reaction that you should anticipate is me discarding your application and moving onto the next one.

Again, I don't intend to be harsh, but you should seriously reconsider your conceptual framework on this point. This is why it's taken me so long to write about these things on LW: because I found the prospect of dealing with ever more nitpicking and straw-manning to be exhausting. So often people don't meet me half way and put in the work of steelmanning my arguments that would be necessary to make it cost-effective for me to engage.