This is on the money, especially "commitment" to playing the game. In my industry, the supplicant presenter is acknowledging that the audience is busy, important, and only needs the "smart points" that s/he's slaved to provide on the corporate template and color scheme.

Of course, Tufte pointed out that this can kill people.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/pi/2016_2017/phil/...