I'm not going to defend the content, but I am going to defend the format. Is the blog post overly long? Or are we just accustomed to short-and-juicy articles a

I'm not going to defend the content, but I am going to defend the format. Is the blog post overly long? Or are we just accustomed to short-and-juicy articles aimed at the declining attention spans of the twitter era? It's about 3700 words, which is about the length of a high school term paper. Substack lists it as a "17 minute read". Firefox says 21-24. Reality has a lot of detail and for something that actually aims to get technical rather than just skimming the surface, it often takes several paragraphs to analyze different facets of a complex question. In a different era, this article would have been considered an appropriate length for a magazine.