With papers, my experience is actually the opposite of what you are
describing.
Most conferences impose a maximum page count for papers and people were
working hard putting as much information as possible into their papers.
Stripping away every unnecessary word, checking each sentence if it
couldn't be written shorter.
This makes those papers sometimes very hard to read. You have to be
concentrated all the time because every sentence is important.
well, people often set an upper limit of 100 pages, but a lower limit of
10 or 25 pages.
sometimes, a person doesn't actually have enough to say on the topic to
make this many pages worth of content, so it is time to pad it out...
like, for a class "write a minimum 10 page paper of analysis on this
poem" or similar. person looks as poem, has little idea even what the
thing is saying much less what to write about it. like "what the hell
sense does this poem make anyways?... the author isn't actually saying
much of anything..." (then looking up stuff online, where the "analysis"
is people writing more stuff that doesn't make any sense, and has little
clear relation to much of anything), then ending up resorting to
imitating the style of this guy who makes "Let's Play" videos on the
internet (who goes by the name "MediBot"), and basically just pulling a
bunch of random crap out of the air, "it is a metaphor for this thing
and this other thing" and so on, and with some effort, pull enough crap
to fill up said paper...
nevermind if the teachers don't really like it and give it a poor grade
(like a C or similar... but, hell, better than an F for not turning in
anything...).
granted, yes, it is a bit easier to write a bit more if a person
actually cares about (or can at least understand) the topic...
or such...