You really need to participate in WP to see how dysfunctional small parts of it are.

I notice you use --. Discussion around dashes is extensive. Here's just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy...

That single discussion is around 15,000 words. Here's a search for some more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dash&pre...

Note the search results helpfully give a word count - there are several hundred thousand extra words there.

Dash-discussion was not limited to the style guide and its talk page, or to the village pump. Disputes were escalated to ANI (a notice board where incidents for administrator attention can be raised); finally ending up at arbitration. (This is pretty severe level of dispute.) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitra...

PEDIT: I mean, just look at the article talk for "Mexican-American War" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mexican%E2%80%93American_... - roughly 21,000 words.}

And that's about –,— and -. Now imagine how editors behave over contentious issues. (What are those islands called and who do they belong to? is a good example.)