LDS history repeatedly insists that the gold plates were painstaking to engrave, requiring concise, even “shorthand-like” writing to conserve space. If so, the Book of Mormon should reflect brevity. Instead, it often indulges in redundancy.

Take Mosiah 27:34:
“And of them were the Sons of Mosiah & their names were Ammon and Aaron and Omner and Himni these were the names of the Sons of Mosiah.”

In less than a minute, I revised it to:
“Among them were the sons of Mosiah: Ammon, Aaron, Omner, and Himni.”

Why would an all-knowing, perfected being deliver such a clumsy verse through the seer stone to Joseph—when I can revise it properly in mere seconds?