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I agree. Several authors and editors I follow have recommended using ‘said’ and ‘asked’ for the majority of your writing. They are basically invisible to readers; just subconscious tags at this point. Using different words in every sentence is distracting.
I was thinking the exact same thing. The weird length makes it feel menacing.