@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe Well, if by actual academics you mean, those that are content with picking out a couple out of hundreds of students to share their theories/knowledge with, simply because their obscure presentation happened to click with them, then yes I'm not talking about those directly (and yes, I'll snark at anyone and anything). There are not failing to be accessible, or proving anything about that, it's as irrelevant for them as they are irrelevant in this context. I'm talking about mathematicians as a community that also include those who try to popularize the subject, whose methods might be less refined, but the approach is, in essence, based on the same fundamental ideas that the actual academics hold, about the higher purpose/meaning of mathematics (nothing wrong with that in general).