I think there's a place for both types of presentation. Strang is giving a conceptual overview, and a listener is necessarily passive. The MS videos are present

I think there's a place for both types of presentation. Strang is giving a conceptual overview, and a listener is necessarily passive. The MS videos are presenting technical details of how to write rust programs, and bite-sized chunks can be good there, because they provide natural stopping points for listeners to experiment with the presented methods. Similarly, I could see bite-sized videos being natural for teaching the business of actually calculating solutions to a system of linear equations.