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I hate the number of people teaching useful things using videos instead of writing articles.
It's actually a good thing that visual learners get a chance to learn useful stuff by watching videos. Not everyone has the attention span required to read through a Wikipedia page.
You aren't wrong. But, this format is taking over and I hate having to watch a video for information that I can parse easier when it's text based. Everytime I've looked for schematics and a teardown of a laptop or other hardware all I find is videos that I have to scrub through looking for exactly what I need.
Today I was looking up how to do something in a game I'm playing, there were some videos about it, usual formula starting with "Sup guys!", intros, ads for the channel, and fluff, "remember to press like", oh and a bunch of videos that may or may not contain the answer.
The answer could be written in 5 words, basically what key to press.
The days of text based walk throughs are sadly behind us.