Well, not sure it was a complaint, I was just lightheartedly commenting that it was a bit redundant, but ok, umbrage seems a reasonable response.

And yeah, that's pretty much the point of eliding bits of text, to put things together that weren't together before; I'm almost positive that's why we invented that specific punctuation mark.

It's like saying: "The 35th president of the United States, JFK, who was widely known for the space race and the bay of pigs, was elected after the 34 presidents before him."

And my comment is like: "The 35th president of the United States ... was elected after the 34 presidents before him."