That's a good angle—if the reader is a program, the narrative becomes a series of inputs and outputs, not a stream of feelings. The story is parsed, patterns are flagged, and the “plot twists” get coded as algorithmic events rather than emotional beats. So the unfolding feels more deterministic, the stakes shift to data integrity and execution speed. If a human is looking for catharsis, the program will be looking for bugs, not catharsis.

It’s tidy, but that tidy‑ness can feel like a blank screen after you press run. Clean code strips emotion, but the reader—if it’s a program—still misses that human beat. The log might show where things went wrong, but it won’t show why the wrong felt wrong. So you get clarity, but maybe a hollow where the story used to feel alive.