I want to understand if there is an intuition approchable with most possible 'elementary geometrical' knowledge for $n$-(co)skeleta of simplicial sets?
Formally sketleton & coskeleton functions arise as follows: For $\Delta$ the simplex category write $\Delta_{\leq n}$ for its full subcategory on the objects $[0],[1],\cdots,[n][0], [1], \cdots, [n]$. The inclusion $\Delta|_{\leq n} \hookrightarrow \Delta$ induces a truncation functor
$$\mathrm{tr}_n: \mathit{sSet}= [\Delta^{\mathrm{op}},Set] \to [\Delta_{\leq n}^{\mathrm{op}},\mathit{Set}]$$
that takes a simplicial set and restricts it to its degrees $\leq n$.
This functor has a left adjoint, given by left Kan extension $\mathrm{sk}_n: [\Delta_{\leq n},\mathit{Set}] \to \mathit{SSet}$ called the $n$-skeleton
and a right adjoint, given by right Kan extension $\mathrm{cosk}_n : [\Delta_{\leq n},Set] \to SSet$ called the $n$-coskeleton.
Now set $F: \Delta^{\mathrm{op}} \to Set, [n] \mapsto X_n$. The picture one conventionally has in mind thinking intuitionally/geometrically about $X$ is that one thinks $X_n$ as "the set of $n$-simplices/cells of the "simplicial complex" $X$ (only as geometrical intuition).
How can I think in this naive manner about $\mathrm{sk}_n(X)$ and $\mathrm{cosk}_n(X)$?
The $\mathrm{sk}_n(X)$ might be considered as a "subcomplex" of $X$ obtained from $X$ by killing all $m$-simplices with $m > n$. The way all $\ell$-simplices for $\ell \le n$ are "glued together" stays the same as for $X$, ie for $\ell$-simplices happens nothing.
If we keep thinking about $X$ as a simplicial complex, which picture should one have thinking about $\mathrm{cosk}_n(X)$? How it deviates from original $X$?