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> I’m getting old.

I think you hit the nail on the head with this observation:

> Instead, what we have is a culture of very shallow and information-light “articles”, that seems to me more like SEO bot posts trolling for clicks, rather than written for developers, by developers.

For a while now, content's been created as a means to improve SEO, and it's really obvious when an article was written just so it contains the right mashup of keywords and that it's padded to just the right length.