There is operator overloading happening - the + operator has a different meaning depending on the types involved. Your issue however seems to be with the type coercion, not the operator overloading.
It should not happen no matter why it does happen under the hood.
If you don't want it to happen either use a different language, or ensure you don't run into this case (e.g. by using Typescript). It's an unfortunate fact that this does happen, and it will never be removed due to backwards compatibility.
It's basically fans condensing series & dubbing over them, often rewriting plot lines to be more funny and flanderizing characters. DBZ: Abridged is a legit masterpiece, can't recommend it enough (though the first few episodes are a bit rough).
Sorry, but that's absolutely wrong - the complexity of articles can vary wildly. Many are easily understandable, while many others are not understandable without a lot of prerequisite knowledge in the domain (e.g. mathematics stuff).
If the reader is interested in the content, they aren't going to skip it.
But they aren't interested in the content because of the complexity. You may wish that humans work like you describe, but we literally see that they don't.
What you can do is provide a simplified summary to make people interested, so they're willing to engage with the more complex language to get deeper knowledge around the topic.
For example, look at all the iPad kids who can't use a computer for shit. Kids who grew up with computers HAD to learn the more complex interface of computers to be able to do the cool things they wanted to do on the computer.
You're underestimating how many people before the iPad generation also can't use computers because they never developed an interest to engage with the complexity.
[...] then how are those readers going to improve their poor reading skills?
By becoming interested in improving their poor reading skills. You won't make people become interested in that by having everything available only in complex language, it's just going to make them skip over your content. Otherwise there shouldn't be people with poor reading skills, since complex language is already everywhere in life.
If your fridge is warmer than 40°F, it's not working properly.
My fridge literally has a setting for 6°C (42.8°F). I usually keep it at 4°C, which is still warmer than 40°F. I don't know anyone who keeps their fridge colder than that.
They have to keep hoarding more money to defend against everyone who doesn't like them for hoarding all that money!