Am I the only one who is annoyed by those? It's a minor thing but it's just another little piece of annoying hand-holding distraction that web designers seem to

Am I the only one who is annoyed by those? It's a minor thing but it's just another little piece of annoying hand-holding distraction that web designers seem to like. I think part or what bothers me is the idea that you can assign a read time to something. Reminds be a bit of the part in Snow Crash where YT's mom is judged by how long she takes to read government memos.