I'd pay to research that topic. How people ensured gatekeeping due to fear. And how much is useful (because sometimes cutting people can reduce the paradox of choice which can drag things to a halt) or not.
ps: I'm also very curious about how much obfuscation is just an icing of fetishism [0] on top of a very natural compression tendency (old mathematics papers were written in full words and I can agree that the meaning can be lost on the way and part of the beauty of mathematics is the short symbols that cover a large set of possibilities).
[0] too much pride and a bit of confusion even on the value of notation leading people to think it's more important than intuition and the concept described.
ps: I'm also very curious about how much obfuscation is just an icing of fetishism [0] on top of a very natural compression tendency (old mathematics papers were written in full words and I can agree that the meaning can be lost on the way and part of the beauty of mathematics is the short symbols that cover a large set of possibilities).
[0] too much pride and a bit of confusion even on the value of notation leading people to think it's more important than intuition and the concept described.