Because however many hours were spent making it is irrelevant as to why it was made, which was the point.
> Is the author summarising his own impressions of Sapiens (surely acceptable), or literally lifting the original text of the book and taking it as his own [...]?
The first sentence about cutting it down answers that.
No, I was not, I was replying to the section I quoted (hence quoting it, that’s how that works).
Because however many hours were spent making it is irrelevant as to why it was made, which was the point.