[egypturnash]

Because they're trying to put them in a niftily-illustrated package like a magazine instead.

Now that we've made it to the Internet, even the lowest of budgets can have full color illustrations if it's willing to pay for the artist's time. No worries about minimum print runs before it's affordable.

I mean, oh no, you had to snap out of your click-trance for five seconds to find a button to stop reading?

(I may be biased, I'm an artist who very occasionally takes illustration gigs from online publications.)

[tvawnz]

I'm fine with the illustrations, the layout is just annoying and counterintuitive. Why would you not just have a long-ass column with some images in it like basically every other article? That's what's awesome about webpages, infinite scroll, maybe some hyperlinked table of contents in a frame to the left, you know 1990s HTML stuff.