[robotsonic]

In defence of the author, they have used a standard ESRI webapp/story map template.

What blows my mind is that I knew it was going to be this before clicking through entirely based on your comment.

The service provided by ESRI is handy for those with minimal knowledge to make something decent, but it's also easy for people to get carried away and use all the features. This is like the modern equivalent to marching ants, I guess.