A lot of software developers are awful story tellers, and what they end up using for abstractions sounds like something George Orwell would cook up.

And when those developers discover TDD, then their code spends multiple pages saying nothing at all. Oof.

I think deep down most of us intuit that this is a problem. We will persue an articulate but not particularly bright candidate and pass on someone who quickly arrives as the solution without showing any work.

But we let in people with good verbal and poor written skills and they create deserts, their code is so dry. No, I don't want you to explain to me again how great your code is. I just want to be able to follow it without using a debugger. Because maybe this bug isn't even in your code and I just want to make a determination and keep moving.