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However, if you are a person struggling to get into a habit of writing, it is okay if you do not yet have aerospace-grade writing. You can stop worrying and structure all your writing as lists.

You don't need to weigh yourself down with the responsibility to prevent a catastrophic misunderstanding among rocket scientists.

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That it caused a catastrophe and the participants were rocket scientists doesn't mean the problem was anything more than poor communication. The information on the slide in question wasn't hard to understand; it was arranged in a way that distorted its meaning.

I agree that this is likely not appropriate to a context where you've got lives and millions of dollars on the line. That's not my point. My points are that:

1. The audience for the article is not program managers at NASA but instead random people thinking about how to learn to write.

2. If someone is starting their learning journey then it is unhelpful to catastrophize the consequences of imperfect effort.

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