When I grow up, I want to be a heretic.

Tan: Okay, obviously this man does not need me. We Brit’s have very good taste.

Bobby: I’ll say…look at this place? And the nightclub…Swanky.

Jonathon: LOOK AT HIS GORGEOUS HAIR. I JUST WANNA EAT HIM UP.

Tan: Seriously, what are we here for, exactly??

Antoni: So, Lucifer, what do you like to eat?

Lucifer: Oh, hm. I’ve got some avocado honey over there.

Antoni: Oh, awesome. What else?

Lucifer: …alcohol.

Everyone: …

Karamo: Lucifer, you seem pretty successful, what are some goals for yourself in the future?

Lucifer: Well to be perfectly honest I’ve recently come to the realization that I hate myself and am finding it hard to forgive myself for things I didn’t do and I put so much stock into what humanity as a whole thinks of me. There’s also the fact that I am completely, utterly in love and feel I cannot be with her because I have to protect her.

Jonathon: 911! ALL HANDS ON DECK! THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE, CHOP CHOP! SELF LOVE SELF LOVE SELF LOVE!

And I've heard the Oxford Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory by Jonathan Culler is good.

what I’m reading is now so niche that the author is assuming the only people reading it are already knowledgeable in the subject (which, if I’m reading that particular text, I am, or I probably wouldn’t have even come across the text in the first place)

the larger words are used because there’s a lot of concepts and using that word would make the whole thing more succinct 

I’ve seen all kinds of other reasons claimed for this use of language, such as trying to deliberately keep poor people out of academia and not wanting to share their subject and instead making it overly complicated as a gatekeeping tactic and I just… don’t get it? I sincerely don’t, because never have I sat down with an academic textbook to have an easy read. I read it for pleasure as well as learning because I’m interested in the subject, but I’m often annotating the book, making notes, and…….. constantly looking up the dozens of words I don’t know in a dictionary. 

No.