I feel that this piece was trying to convey some quite profound emotions, and quite successfully so, but the insistence on non-capitalization was just getting in the way of this main effort.

I don't know, personally I enjoyed the general aesthetic the choice created.

Your head might be more efficient than mine in processing text. For me, it felt like a somewhat complicated chore.

I'm now feeling slightly odd that I read all three posts without even noticing the capitalisation.

I envy you. For me, it felt like dragging something a bit heavy across an uneven floor. Doable, but unpleasant.

No you didn't.

Aw man, really? I thought I did, that sucks.

We don't know what the author tried to optimize. Maybe it was for the number of times the Shift key was pressed. Maybe it was for the author's convenience.

What we know is that the author did NOT optimize for: - efficiency of transmitted information - readers' convenience - ease of reading

And this is the exact reason why it was so bad.