I wonder why this was written as these very small paragraphs with only a few lines of content? Apart from the hosting issues due to hackernews it leads to a lot of intros and 'in the next section we will learn...' but the actually useful content is quite little and you have to dig hard for it. I'd personally favor a normal article.
I found it frustrating because of all the links everywhere. In the “How to use this guide” section it links to a body language section.
But there’s no context as to where this body language section fits in.
Am I supposed to read the body language section now and then remember to go back to the how to section? Or is body language discussed later? Then why link to it now? This format stresses me out.
Most likely, it's for tracking reasons. To figure out what sections people hit more and less...
I agree with you though. It's sad that content is being reformulated for those reasons.
Maybe I'm weird, but I find the writing style almost condescending.
It's a style I've seen elsewhere as well so not particular to this site, but I find it grating and off-putting. Feels like it treats me like a 4 year old.
Finally something for an LLM to crawl and assemble into a coherent document that can be read from start to finish.