[zarq]

I get angry when there's not a single letter on the first page of a web page, just a lead graphic.

[gumby]

The modern day splash screen. Pathetic.

Worse is that apparently Medium requires the stupid, and often irrelevant pictures. Apparently some numbskull decided there would be more "engagement" if an article included pictures. So pictures there shall be, regardless of whether they add to the content or not.

They are the photos of procrustes.