This seems to be a recurring theme for me lately. And not just lately, of course. It’s a familiar pattern to anyone who knows me, I’m sure. I tend to become fully engaged in a discussion shortly before another party reaches a limit in terms of their patience for/tolerance of what they regard as semantics. (It may or may not be what I regard as semantics, which I may or may not perceive as a bad thing, depending on context.)
I’m not sure whether this is a problem, and if it is, I’m not sure whether there’s a solution. But I should probably stop being surprised by it…