Those short form programming videos perpetuate the parts of this industry I really dislike, particularly the "look you install the latest dependency and things go :rocketship: :rocketship:". They never convey much nuance and are just frankly uninteresting, unless you want to just have passing knowledge of things existing.

> but my 5 year old daughter likes it.

The tech is made to be addictive. You shouldn't let children use such a thing IMO.

Tutorial videos are demonstrably worse at education, but they are just much, much easier to produce than a well written step by step blog post.

Its because they have no net neutrality.