Standard German can be all of precise, succinct, and clear at the same time trouble with that is that nobody talks like that. It’s a Dachsprache / contact variety build out by, among other disciplines, science. By all measures the stuff you learn in school (whether abroad or domestically) is a constructed language. And it’s mostly science which uses that kind of mode, e.g. administrative German is precise and (notoriously, excessively) objective but also verbose AF.

And it seems to be a mode that doesn’t really translate. I’m always baffled by Anglos saying that Kant is hard to read.