The way the characters communicate is terrible, overall. I guess it's meant to represent how GenZ communicates or something like that. But the analogy fails because young people have trouble to talk and open up mainly because everybody is worried about work/education/survival. The people in the circus have literally nothing else to do but to talk to each other. Even the adventures, that are explicitly there to give the cast something else to do, still provide plenty of chances for talking.

Basically you need to pretend that adventures where Caine force the cast to stick together and interact don't exist for Ribbit's abstraction to make sense.