Look, a lot of things don't need 100 pages of text. Of course, as a researcher, what you don't want to do is to make your research easy to read, because people may then assume that it was easy to do and therefore not impressive.
> As a researcher, what you don't want to do is to make your research easy to read
Mmmh.. Disagree. This is the same idea as those software that nobody wants to explain you what does exactly, and therefore don't get a lot of customers using it after the novelty wears off. This is a red flag for mediocrity for me. Of course you should aim to get so many readers as possible.
Both actually. Its just that your thesis won't get many if any non-self citations, even if it is really good. People will cite your paper, which they bother to take time reading (hopefully).
Look, a lot of things don't need 100 pages of text. Of course, as a researcher, what you don't want to do is to make your research easy to read, because people may then assume that it was easy to do and therefore not impressive.