"I want to be careful here, because “taste” is doing a lot of work and it is easy to hear it as decoration."

Claude, is that you?

I haven't seen a human write like this, ever, and I've read a lot of books. The 'want to be careful here', the 'doing a lot of work'... common. If it had "I'd like to gently push back here" next to it, I wouldn't have been surprised.