I need to smash something. Why won’t some people just read? When messaging colleagues at work, I put effort into writing out everything clearly and concisely in order to minimise back and forth. But people just won’t read. I tell them A is precisely this. Then their next question: so precisely what is A?
Do people get secretly paid for exchanging more messages?

Well, we are talking about a whole generation of people that have a ever shortening attention span. Where it's a common design warning that you have to caption the attention of a customer in 5-10 seconds...

Image what pain it is for them if they have to not only read your message, but comprehend it! Oh the horror. It's clearly easier to offload that work back to you so you explain it again with less detail... Or to schedule a call apparently, that also works for a lot of people...

It's annoying as hell

tldr

;-)

That's why I don't care much about my typo's or English quality. People who fall over that aren't my type anyway

they're probably overloaded

drip feed them information instead to conserve energy. say something simple then wait for questions, answer only the question they asked, maybe give them some further dialogue options. act like a NPC in a video game they can browse the knowledge of