>Simply mashing a few letters together can be empowering for ourselves while being exclusionary for others. It’s an artifact—albeit a small one—of our egos. We know what the technobabble means. Our justified place in the universe is maintained.

Your Oh So Humble Ego has you thinking there's some ulterior motive to me typing 3 letters instead of 20.

I did get the feeling that all of these "problematic" behaviors were simply about saving everyone's time.

Dialect formation is also an instinct when forming close connections with any group of people. The prevalence of acronyms in workplaces is probably due in larger part to collective rather than individual ego formation.

Yeah I kinda stopped reading there. The author’s pov seem quite skewed by a few experiences and making the wrong correlations