Conversational audio form is really not an "industrial snack". If I had the chance to listen to podcasts about any topic, I would do so much more often - uploading PDFs of academic papers, manpages, etc.
I personally appreciate the lighter introduction/discussion into a topic. That may be all it's good for, and that's okay. I'm not replacing my reading with this any time soon, precisely because of the problems you mention.
If the purpose is serious, of information access management, why did they elect the form of a pisstake ("like")?