Yeah. Law is weird and gets weirder when you scrutinize it as far as it can be scrutinized, which often happens in court.
Not contract law, but I've been in two years of FOIA litigation to resolve a legal interpretation of "would" vs "could", and how that applies to a comma-separated list of categories. It's beyond maddening how long legal interpretation issues can go on for.
It sucks, but sometimes the verbosity is needed to avoid these sorts of years-long fights.