> What use is that? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know.

People are terrible at writing. Near universally bad. Even good writers have drafts and editors.

There is a constant refrain here that somehow short messages are more valuable than longer ones. But that assumes it's understandable. Lots of short content is, frankly, awful because the writer cannot put themselves in the position of the reader and explain all the things around the point they're making that the reader really should be told.

You can view writing as translation. From your language to a language your audience speaks. At that level is it so odd if the word count differs from one side to the other?