I think there's an implication here of "less likely to be broken by public research".
Re:Why Keccak is not ARX
by SkyMarshal on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @02:34PM
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Exactly, ARX's less analyzed complexity is a potential information asymmetry arbitrage for serious attackers.
That would be getting causality backwards.
One thing I got from that is that ARX designs are less likely to be broken, not because they are necessarily more secure, but because ARX is often less analysed than designs which yield more concise mathematical representations.