> you might be considering low-effort what’s actually an attempt at simplifying - which is arguably higher effort

I'm not saying that simplifying complex topics is low-effort, good simplification can obviously require a lot of work and I fully agree here.

What I meant is more that some of these tests feel methodologically sloppy, they are too shallow, miss important technical context, do not control for enough variables etc, yet the conclusions are sometimes presented lets just say... too strongly, as I don't want to be too harsh.