Yes, that makes sense.
I think when we spend a lot of time thinking about things, it becomes extremely hard to then think about it from the perspective of someone seeing it for the first time. We have so much knowledge about our factions that subconsciously, we can fill in the blanks when reading through things. It take fresh eyes to go 'wait a minute, so how does this bit work exactly?!'
Not that my suggestions should be taken as gospel - it's just an interesting task to try and interpret someone else's vision so that you understand in the clearest way possible. What makes sense for one doesn't necessarily mean it's 100% clear for another coming in and looking at it for the first time.
But I definitely feel like being ruthless with word count is a bonus - it's hard though - my own faction could really do with a bit of text trimming, especially in the Healers section, but you end up tying yourself in knots with it!