Kevin Buzzard valued fully explicit details and disliked vagueness and appeals to authority, which he thought could legitimize promising ideas before they were fully defined.

“But as he read the papers that followed Scholze's work, his enthusiasm gave way to concern. Buzzard liked to see every detail spelled out, disliked vagueness and assurances from authority, what he called the opinion of the elders, and that perspective could bless promising ideas before they were fully defined.”