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I agree that the Netflix experience can be a little annoying - but that's because we keep coming back to that show and navigation over and over.

The way these have been implemented for blog posts is more of a single use situation. That is, you are likely only going to hit this article once and never again.

The small moment you create at the top of your content - whether it be a banner image, video or animation - is pretty non intrusive to the experience imo.