A few months ago, I wrote a blog post[1] about the word "just" that echoes the thesis of Tim's article: avoid using the word "just" if you can, it's reductive.
https://www.friendlyskies.net/maybe/just-is-a-dangerous-word...
Also related IMO is a general tendency to under-think summarization (related to reduction):
https://www.friendlyskies.net/maybe/so-just-to-sum-that-up-s...