Against Footnotes

I'm against footnotes and endnotes in academic literature. I'll be brief.

• Academics use notes for digression.
• Academics use notes for obfuscation
• Important notes should be integrated into the argument.
• Unimportant notes should be excised from the argument.
• Notes break the reading flow of the document.
• Accepting all of this, academics will nevertheless defend notes as valuable digression, obfuscation, and dis-integration.