Agree. It may make me a bad person, but I hate wanting to learn something about a complex new topic, and half of it is random quotes and interviews from people

Agree. It may make me a bad person, but I hate wanting to learn something about a complex new topic, and half of it is random quotes and interviews from people who know even less (with accompanying detail in their physical appearance, personality characteristics, employment history, and lovely anecdotes about their sister in law). There is a time and place for a human story, but I've lived long enough and experienced enough crap to understand there's human impact to everything, and sometimes I want to start with high level understanding. (Though to be fair, now that I think about it, I've also lived through enough crap to understand how incredibly misleading and over simplifying high level overviews inevitably are :-/)