WaPo especially, and NYT too, is mostly opinion and human interest commentary about how people feel, not hard news. It's exhausting to try to wade through it to find real reporting and investigations.
I get why they do it (readers are dumb, mostly), but they don't even offer a "news" section.
I'm not disagreeing -- I subscribe to both and am probably going to switch my subscriptions to The Economist and WSJ, which do a better job providing actual news. I also subscribe to the Star Tribune which does a fairly good job.
I don't like op-eds either, but there are other options.