> Your mention of novels and emotion is a false equivalence because novels are richly authored, edited and long form.

It is not a false equivalence but rather a statement that there isn’t anything inherent about text that makes it devoid of emotional quality.

For people who aren’t reading between the lines: we need to get better at writing. My over all point is, in large part, about that. That the denizens of internet who have been around for decades already possess this skill because they have, I would hope, successfully applied it and shipped (in my example) open source software as a distributed text based communication team.