Is the use of the "presentation enhancer" to deter people from actually reading it? Because that's it did to me. The font is illegible, scrolling must be done

Is the use of the "presentation enhancer" to deter people from actually reading it? Because that's it did to me. The font is illegible, scrolling must be done via the bar (otherwise it crawls at ~1px/sec), and turns my cpu fan way up. Is it really still "cool" to misuse technology nowadays?