[MalphasWats]

You're complaining about a Writer writing?

[mgaunard]

I'm complaining about clickbait.

[croes]

If the article fits the title and isn't just to draw clicks it's not clickbait.

To be overly verbose is neither.

[KingMob]

A light introduction that then segues into background material on a complicated legal topic is not clickbait.

[remram]

> The first three versions of the Creative Commons license contained a small, significant oversight

This sentence is 1087 words in. That's a long "light introduction".

[KingMob]

You're lumping in the long background section with the introduction.

[mgaunard]

The actual content I would expect is the following 3 points.

1. What the old clause of the license was 2. What kind of unintended side effect it had 3. What the new clause addressing this is

Summing up those 3 points results in a clear paragraph of maybe 5 to 10 lines. Meanwhile I challenge anyone who hasn't read it to extract that content from the article in less than 15 minutes.

[jamincan]

The article delivers what it promises. While it may not be concise, that doesn't make it clickbait.