> I understand that some degree of formalism is required to enable the sharing of knowledge amongst people across a variety of languages, but sometimes I'll read a white paper and think "wow, this could be written a LOT more simply".

OK, challenge accepted: find a way to write one of the following papers much more simply:

Fabian Hebestreit, Peter Scholze; A note on higher almost ring theory

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01940

Peter Scholze; Berkovich Motives

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03382

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What I want to tell you with these examples (these are, of course, papers which are far above my mathematical level) is: often what you read in math papers is insanely complicated; simplifying even one of such papers is often a huge academic achievement.