[doubled112]

I feel the same way about many video tutorials and reviews.

"Could this video tutorial have been 3 written commands?"

When reading, it's at my own pace. I can stop and go without extra steps. I can copy and paste.

If it's a video, now I have to listen at their pace (and I seem to listen slower than I read), hit pause/resume, adjust my volume because somebody on my side is making noise, go back and forth because I didn't catch something, etc.

It's a generally worse experience for me.

[rchaud]

The video 'tutorials', especially on Youtube are often an upsell method for paid video courses. Those tend to have a lot more fluff content to pad out the run time.

[handrous]

The only thing I like about tech tutorial videos is that you see everything they do, including stuff the presenter might not have thought to mention. If you're deep into some unfamiliar territory, this can be very helpful.

Otherwise, I'm with you, but I've had co-workers who loved watching YouTube videos about some language feature or another, or whatever, and did so often. I don't get it, but I guess it worked for them.