It's not "too long" so much as it is "too long for the value or fun in reading it." When I got to the paragraph that starts with "There was a time when we gave

It's not "too long" so much as it is "too long for the value or fun in reading it." When I got to the paragraph that starts with "There was a time when we gave the Cloud (before it was a Cloud) a big pass" I thought it might start to get interesting. Instead I found this convoluted moon-laser analogy. That's when I finally realized the article was going nowhere and considered the whole thing a waste of time. I'm not sure who your intended audience is but it clearly is not me.