The question really is, would you write an essay to ask the temperature? It is a simple, self-contained question that enriches the monastery by being asked and answered and comparing it to anything more complex or problematic is fallacious. It's surreal to me that anyone, let alone a few anyones, has an issue with the brevity of the post from a known good monk or that one would insist on verbosity as a social benefit as opposed to RFC:Repetitive Verbosity Considered Harmful.