[Benjammer]

Two reasons for these shallow, high-level-walk-through type of articles that I've seen are to pad a resume or to pad a promotion packet.

[LeoNatan25]

Sure, this is a problem in general when companies require or “heavily encourage” its engineering to post “blogs”. And some developers are just not writers, or lack the skill to do proper articles.

But, here, this is not the case; the author makes their living from this. With the former engineers, that’s excusable. Here, less so.