[Loquebantur]

The point isn't whether it's true about you in particular, it's about the actual effect it has on the general audience.

Improving the design of that article will do absolutely nothing for its public reception.

Voicing reasonable reactions to the salient content actually helps furthering the discussion. Nitpicking does the opposite.

[voidUpdate]

Good design will absolutely improve public reception

[Loquebantur]

It maybe would, if people were to read it in the first place.

But they don't: they go to the comments here first and try to get the gist of reactions, in order to save themselves the time to actually read the piece.

You pretend, it wasn't trivial for people to scroll down to the graph. Such things aren't the issue at all.

The reactions you cause with your comment above are.

[voidUpdate]

I doubt my single comment about the design choices of the article is turning people off from seeing what the article is about. I'm stressing that the graph is actually important to see, not saying "the design is bad so you shouldn't read this article". And given people's attention spans these days, I'd imagine reading 14 paragraphs to find the graph the title talks about might be non-trivial

[vitally3643]

People also won't read 14 paragraphs of prose about a graph before you show them the graph

[rpdillon]

Just move the image to the top when you're talking about it. This isn't deep insight, just basic readability.

[switchbak]

"The point isn't whether it's true about you in particular" - then wtf are you saying? That this person can say true things but is still wrong?

I agree with them, and I also agree with the concern in the article. Both can be right. And I think you're off base here with all your unfounded assumptions and straw-manning.