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in that sense what we are seeing in math right now is not really a "precursor" so much as a field that was partially shielded from that drrive rapidly undergoing the same kind of disaggregatory shock that, e.g., writers have been experiencing for the last many decades

Right. Pure math seems the field most opposite writing, in that (a) it is highly specialized and recondite, such that v few people can understand the work in a given field; and (b) the many trained in lucrative applied math respect the pure as peak human achievement even if they don't get it

Meanwhile, writing, even in the specialized precincts of the university, is something almost all people do in some way, so the specialized gets calls jargony or whatever and is pilloried. If something can't be understood, it's the writer's fault, not a problem inherent to the topic, as in pure math.