That would be atrocious! You need to flavour and enjoy the reading, just the same you enjoy a nice drink, or a good cup of coffee, or you take the time to make coitus a never-ending engagement.
To be fair there are lots of "snack food" articles around these days but few three course meals. I try to appreciate the long form articles that I find interesting for what they are.
You can't say that on Hacker News. The downvote brigade will nail you every time for disagreeing with them. You can not comment on the verbosity of articles or unrelated extra paragraphs and asides that don't serve the overall narrative in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, etc.
Just enjoy it.