It's because most people haven't even read anything karl popper wrote and are just citing the meme they saw on Twitter that their favorite influencer posted and thought "man, that helps justify my beliefs".

While I personally don't consider it an immersion break, I suppose I can see how you could.

And I agree that it can be a bit jarring to read, atleast in novels when a character is half talking in shorted slang words that almost feel like they're put there to just.. keep the writing from being 'boring'.

No problem.

I'd say it's usually used in a way to portray that the character is essentially a country bumpkin or a farmer of some kind, and is used to separate the character from city folk.

It usually adds a bit of a feeling cultural difference between two characters.

That said, I haven't seen edgerunner and I have seen situations where it is used in a very cringe way, and it sticks out like a sore thumb. But I'd say the time mentioned above is fairly tame and not problematic whatsoever.

Also, I still think you're assuming far less people use a hick accent and/or pronounce words in such ways than they actually do. Hell, even in my part of the world things like y'all and "wontcha" and such are relatively common place.

What are you talking about. I've meet plenty of people who say "ya" instead of you and a couple who say "dontcha".

Maybe it comes with socializing with random people over voice through videogames and stuff but it's definitely a thing. Is it super common? Not in my area but in certain ones I'm sure it is.