Yeah. I admit that my attention span isn’t what it used to be. But I would like articles to open with, “The key supporting effort that will win Trump a second term is the legal case heading to the Supreme Court next week which involves the 14th Amendment (or whatever)” and then they can blather on and say “To understand why, we need to go back to Kansas in 1923, to a small town where a young school teacher first had an interesting idea …”
I can handle a lot of obscure digression, but I like to have a sense of where it is all going. If the article starts out vague and just gets flowery, I lose interest fast.
People used to know how to make a statement then explain it. Now, everyone is so starved for personal attention they want to explain their answers before ever giving the answer.