Often it's not a matter of more vs less pedantic, but rather how familiar a person is with the subject matter. How distracting a flawed analogy is depends on how familiar the reader is with the topic.

If I say to you "If you work hard at it, one day you too can grow from a tiny shack to a magnificent skyscraper" are you going to go "that's just a loose analogy and I feel motivated"? Or are you going to go "Umm, that's not how that works"?

Some readers have as much familiarity with trees as you do with buildings.

Ikr, most people on here are just not appreciative enough. And on top of that they feel its worth the effort to actually type it out and comment it