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It's not just the Nonsense Math Effect; there's a general Nonsense Effect in academia, wherein in the most complex and abstract writings are lauded above others despite the fact that they don't [seem to] make sense. Hegel, Derrida, Lacan...
I think people just assume that if they can't understand it, it must be of some higher level which they can't comprehend, and is therefore automatically of higher quality. Nobody (or at least very few) instantly doubt that which they don't understand, especially in mathematics.