I like the term acerbic brevity! Generally though, I'd say concise and precise is exactly what I want in my docs, especially if I have to read hundreds of pages.

There's a fine line to walk for it to stay understandable though.

Academic papers sometimes take brevity to the extreme due to page limits and (frankly) bad writers, so much so that crucial parts are missing or ambiguous or where papers consist solely of formulas with little context.

Personally I draw the line where I need start writing down stuff in order to understand the following paragraphs. That's tedious.

However I encountered the other extreme too and it's similarly unbearable: full on conversational English in an overly friendly tone with everything explained at length and sometimes repeated. It gets old really quick and takes longer to get to what I need. Fine for a hobby project, but if I need it for work I don't want to spend time on that.