The point came across to me as a pretty unproductive comment on the design of the website hosting the article rather than its contents, which is why I responded

The point came across to me as a pretty unproductive comment on the design of the website hosting the article rather than its contents, which is why I responded the way I did. Just like people who will complain about a news site with ads or some other unrelated design feature of the site they don’t like. Again, if you’re on here you presumably know how to block ads, or cookie dialogs.