I think there are good and bad uses for PDFs just as there are good and bad uses for webpages, but you need a hot take like "unfit for human consumption" to get

I think there are good and bad uses for PDFs just as there are good and bad uses for webpages, but you need a hot take like "unfit for human consumption" to get clicks I guess. For example, Agner Fog's instruction tables are something I look at from time to time, and hate browsing that PDF file for the information I need. Similarly, software manuals as PDFs are really annoying to use - and I've written them! But for research that needs to be referenced through other research in a bibliography, having concrete reference points relative to the length/start of the content is actually much more reliable than having semantic links to headings or a URL. I'll frequently find deadlinks in bibliographies, or missing webpages, or webpages completely altered and unable to parse from an illegible URL. Versus a page number, which may be in exact or slightly wrong, but is a good starting point rather than a dead end.