Kepler's "sleepwalking"

As previously mentioned, Cohen criticizes Kepler for his "sleepwalking" and hard to follow narrative of his conception of how the universe works. Could it be possible that Kepler tried to visually demonstrate his thought processes in an effort to combat "save the phenomena"? For example, if he had just presented his evidence (such as the discovery of the elliptical motion of the heavenly spheres), people might have understood his work to be just another hypothesis. As his work stands, he could have tried to bring the leader along with him on his intellectual and mathematical struggle so that by the end of his work, the reader was as firmly convinced as Kepler himself that this is the actual operation of the universe. Maybe by getting people to understand how he came to these conclusions, they would be more satisfied with their validity and not just accept the "simpler" explanation of the universe.