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> Verbosity is an existential threat.

Any thoughts on some sort of sliding-scale interface for text density/verbosity like in this concept design? Would that help or hurt the situation?

(See “Abstraction slider”, about halfway down)

The complaint here is just that these articles are written with an anecdotal lead style, rather than inverted pyramid style.

The solution is writers changing their writing style, and probably not a browser/tool that can display 4 different versions of a text.