See I felt like the post was arguing for the opposite, saying approximate comparisons like a burrito or a promise were harmful to the learning process. I disagree with that and agree with you
At least for my understanding of the post, it’s not saying the analogy itself is bad. It’s saying the analogy you find clarifying is useful to you because it’s familiar and helps you relate the new idea. But that as a teaching/explaining tool it’s not necessarily useful because your student/audience won’t necessarily have the same familiarity or way of thinking about it.
In other words, it’s not analogies that harm sharing abstract concepts, it’s being presumptuous about what the other person thinks or knows in the concrete.
