I love explanations of concepts that appeal to people in new and different ways, and I thank anyone clever, patient, and gifted enough to produce them. The world is a better place when more people understand are not afraid of more things.

But I think it's important to remember that mathematics is not some evil thing! There are people who train carefully so that the terse mathematical explanations are the intuition. There's nothing wrong with not being one of those people, but knocking the mathematical explanation is denying them their intuition just as their explanation denies you yours.

In a word, it takes all kinds, and I think we should all be as patient with others' ways of learning and understanding as we hope that they will be with ours.