Hey, great find! Thank you. I enjoyed reading that.
In response to the "emphasizing playfulness over profundity," my kneejerk response would be "Good, it's working." >8-> I like both and want to deliver both, but the core mission is getting more people to discover the genre. It'd be harder to dip your toes in if every story was the SFnal equivalent of Finnegans Wake. (OTOH, if every story was a comedy about electric toothbrushes, you'd outgrow it eventually. I would too.)