In contrast to the
simplicity of the math of
@vanhees71 post #38, every common attempt to explain differential aging without math ends up needing caveats, making it unnecessarily complex:
1) Sabine chooses to emphasize acceleration as an easily understood physical mechanism. This leads to a clear cut mistake in her GR case, and also would fail to explain the well known pure SR scenario where twins start and end at rest, with each having 3 periods of accelerations - away from starting point in opposite directions, turnaround to approach starting point, and and (negative) acceleration to come to rest at initial location. The 3 acceleration profiles are identical, but the timing of the second and third differs. The result is differential aging despite 3 identical acceleration periods. People have gone to great lengths to propose rules about timing of acceleration, or distance (itself non-invariant) at time of acceleration to accommodate this case, but the simple answer remains that acceleration per se is simply not a cause of differential aging.
2) Changing frames. The problem here is that a frame is not a physical attribute of anything, and everything is in every frame. If one means changing rest frames, this becomes a euphemism for change of velocity, i.e. acceleration, and you are back to (1).
3) The triplet paradox has always seemed a bit of sophistry to me. The plane geometry analog is saying that "it is false that the need to bend a straight wire to follow a path proves it is non-geodesic (acceleration); instead you can use two straight rulers, thus there is no bending (acceleration)". The reality remains that change in direction of tangent means a path is non-geodesic, and in spacetime, this is called acceleration. However, the bends themselves only mean a path is non-geodesic. To compare two non-geodesic paths, there is nothing simpler than just measuring them.
All of this to avoid the simple statement that different paths between two points generally have different lengths. Or, in spacetime, post #38.