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It's actually not. Abstracts are targeted at academics or researchers, and oftentime preserve the complexity. Take for example the abstract of the paper this video's about:
While it is less complex than the paper, it is nevertheless dense and jargon endowed. Your average person with a highschool education will either not understand it well or be absolutely turned off by its density. They're also just very unlikely to stumble across it.
I could have the machine reword it, but the information is not comprehensive, which reduces quality. By having the entire paper in its context window, the LLM is less likely to hallucinatinate. Plus the added information helps it make better summaries based on all the paper's sections, importantly the limitation section.
Fun Fact: There's a whole scientific discipline solely focused at making science available to average joe, it's called science communication.
Not sure what you'd expect a LLM model to do, but reading deeper into science communication will certainly help you understand and achieve what you are looking for.