Well, it's not so much that people don't read docs, but that they don't keep reading them. Most people probably read (or at least skim) the manual cover-to-cove

Well, it's not so much that people don't read docs, but that they don't keep reading them. Most people probably read (or at least skim) the manual cover-to-cover when learning a new tool. But once you're actively using it, the main interaction with its docs is when you land on a specific page to solve your immediate problem. I'm advocating for periodically reading the docs of your most commonly used tools, as if you were a new user. You'll pickup something new nearly every time you do that.