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by Sirenos 1515 days ago
I think there is a middle ground. You can give a bird's eye view of the way things are done and a hand-wavy intuition for why they are done that way. Analogies go a long way towards building the latter. Then for those who want to dive deep, you can leave pointers to articles that cover such things in detail.

It doesn't always have to be a choice between writing a book and nothing at all because the topic is too complex. I personally have benefited from bird's eye view blog posts and mini-articles more than I can remember. If you have the knowledge then go for it, someone out there will thank you.